Mirageas v. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

How courts have described this case

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• “[T]he interest afforded by [section 6B, which governs tort actions,] is not a penalty. It is awarded to compensate for the delay in the plaintiffs obtaining his money.”
• award of interest on a judgment for damages in a tort action affirmed
• plain language of statutory amendment establishing doctrine of comparative negligence made it necessary to imply repeal of G. L. c. 161A, § 21, which made MBTA liable to nonpassengers only if they were in the exercise of due care when injured
• considering G. L. c. 231, § 6B

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).