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The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has ruled that sick or vacation payments, when used to supplement workers' compensation payments, are not "regular compensation" for purposes of Massachusetts law.
|The case
From Sept. 30, 1985, to July 7, 2012, Robert Vernava worked for the department of public works in the town of Swampscott, Mass. On June 13, 2010, Vernava was injured while working, and he began receiving workers' compensation benefits the same day.
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