| Date: | 11/13/2024 |
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| Organization: | Department of Industrial Accidents |
| Docket Number: | DIA Board No. 039688-20 |
| Location: | BOSTON, MA |
- Employee: Francine M. Kapinos
- Employer: HSH Soldiers Home Holyoke
- Self Insurer: Commonwealth of Massachusetts
KOZIOL, J. The parties cross-appeal from a decision ordering the self-insurer to pay the employee a closed period of § 34 temporary total incapacity benefits from November 13, 2020, to November 29, 2022, along with §§ 13 and 30 medical benefits, and double compensation under § 28. Finding merit in the self-insurer's arguments, we vacate the decision and recommit the matter for further specific findings of fact and rulings of law regarding both the alleged series of events claimed by the employee as the cause of her alleged mental stress injury, and whether those events amounted to serious and willful misconduct on the part of the employer.