Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court August 8, 2002 (Russell v. Cooley Dickinson Hospital, Inc.)

Ireland, J.

This case presents a question of first impression in *444the Commonwealth: whether an employee who receives workers’ compensation benefits for “temporary total disability” is precluded from claiming that she is a “qualified handicapped person,” capable of performing “the essential functions of the position involved” with or without “reasonable accommodation,” for purposes of claiming