PINA v. COMMONWEALTH


400 Mass. 408 (1987)

510 N.E.2d 253

ESTHER PINA vs. COMMONWEALTH.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

July 9, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard K. Latimer for the plaintiff.

Douglas H. Wilkins, Assistant Attorney General (Nancy F. Earsy with him) for the Commonwealth.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., LIACOS, NOLAN, LYNCH, & O'CONNOR, JJ.


LIACOS, J.

On August 6, 1985, the plaintiff, Esther Pina, brought this action under the Massachusetts Tort Claims Act (Act). G.L.c. 258, § 1 (1984 ed.). She seeks to recover damages allegedly sustained as a result of a determination by employees of the Commonwealth's Office of Disability Determination Services (DDS) that she had ceased to be disabled. Under that determination she would be ineligible to continue to receive disability insurance benefits from the...

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