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OPARE'S CASE

No. 09-P-1088.

77 Mass. App. Ct. 539 (2010)

MICHAEL OPARE'S CASE.

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

August 31, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Israel M. Sanchez, Jr., for the employee.

Timothy J. Casey, Assistant Attorney General, for Commissioner of the Department of Industrial Accidents.

Present: CYPHER, BROWN, & RUBIN, JJ.

BROWN, J.

A lump sum settlement, formally "approved" by an administrative judge of the Department of Industrial Accidents (department) pursuant to G. L. c. 152, § 48, is at issue in this appeal. Despite the objections of the injured employee, who made it known he no longer wished to enter into the proposed lump sum settlement with the insurer, the administrative judge ordered him to do so. This was error, as was an order of a judge of the Superior Court dismissing...

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