Caraballo v. Electric Boat Corp.

Summary

The court held that, for workers’ compensation hospital services provided before the later statutory formula took effect, an employer’s liability is determined by the hospital’s filed rates rather than by a commissioner’s case-specific calculation of the hospital’s actual costs. It concluded that the hospital-rate provisions and workers’ compensation provisions, read together with their legislative history and purposes, require the filed rates to control absent a negotiated agreement. The court remanded the cases to the board with direction to affirm the commissioner’s decisions.