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Appeals court hears former state police major’s bid to require indemnification for ethics proceedings
Summary
Major Susan Anderson’s appeal asks whether the state must provide defense and indemnity for an ethics‑commission action that followed civil‑rights litigation, invoking Massachusetts indemnification statute language and prior SJC decisions about duty to defend.
Major Susan Anderson’s appeal, docket 24P552, presented claims that the Department of State Police unlawfully refused to provide defense and indemnification for an ethics-commission proceeding that followed federal civil-rights litigation and an attorney-general inquiry.
Attorney for Major Anderson argued the statutory framework that governs indemnification of state police employees (cited at argument as chapter 258, section 9a and related provisions) imposes a duty to defend pending suits and that prior Massachusetts decisions (discussed at…
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