Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court December 17, 1990 (Kszepka's Case)

Greaney, J.

This is an appeal by Thaddeus Kszepka (employee) from a decision of the reviewing board of the Department of Industrial Accidents (board) which held that the employee’s award of weekly workers’ compensation benefits should be offset by a lump-sum settlement, entered into with the same insurer, of another claim arising out of a separate

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and distinct injury.