SCHEFFLER'S CASE


419 Mass. 251 (1994)

FRANK L. SCHEFFLER'S CASE.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

December 22, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Amy Scarborough for the insurer.

Robert M. Schwartz for the employee.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., WILKINS, LYNCH, O'CONNOR, & GREANEY, JJ.


GREANEY, J.

In this case we are called on to interpret G.L.c. 152, § 11A, as appearing in St. 1991, c. 398, § 30, which, in a workers' compensation case "involving a dispute over medical issues," requires examination of the employee by an "impartial medical examiner," who is to report on specified issues, and whose report is to "constitute prima facie evidence of the matters contained therein." The reviewing board (board) upheld the decision of an administrative...

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