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KAREN SIKORSKI'S CASE

SJC-10481

455 Mass. 477 (2009)

KAREN SIKORSKI'S CASE.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

December 11, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian P. Barrett, Assistant City Solicitor, for the self-insurer.

Alan S. Pierce for the employee.

J. Michael Conley & Chris A. Milne, for Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

John J. Canniff, for Massachusetts Municipal Association, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., IRELAND, SPINA, COWIN, CORDY, BOTSFORD, & GANTS, JJ.

COWIN, J.

While serving as a chaperone for a Peabody High School (school) ski club trip, Karen Sikorski (employee), a mathematics teacher at the school, was injured in a skiing accident. She sought workers' compensation coverage for her medical expenses. Her employer, the city of Peabody (city), a self-insurer, contends that her injury is noncompensable because it occurred while she participated voluntarily in a recreational...

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