Massachusetts Appeals Court March 22, 1983 (Harkins v. Contributory Retirement Appeal Board)

The local retirement board was not a party to and was not bound by the provisions of the lump sum settlement agreement which the injured and disabled (G. L. c. 32, § 7 [1]) employee and his wife entered into with the town’s workmen’s compensation insurer (G. L. c. 152, § 48, as in effect prior to St. 1977, c. 776, § 1; West’s Case, *965313 Mass. 146, 153-154 [1943]).