Posts Tagged ‘workers compensation’
What Does ‘Res Judicata’ Mean and How Can It Impact My Massachusetts Workers’ Compensation Case?
There can many traps awaiting the unwary claimant in a workers’ compensation case. Your employer, or its insurer, likely will be armed with knowledgeable attorneys who are well-versed both in the facts of the case and the law. They may recite Latin words and phrases you don’t know, or legal terms with which you are…
Read MoreObtaining the Massachusetts Workers’ Compensation Survivor Benefits You Need After Losing a Loved One in a Workplace Accident
Each workplace accident that ends in death is tragic as it cuts a life short far too soon. It is also traumatic for the loved ones left behind. In addition to emotional damage, workers who die as a result of industrial accidents can potentially cause major financial crises for their immediate loved ones, as they…
Read MoreReviewing Board Upholds an Award of Temporary Total Disability Benefits for a Massachusetts Worker with Carpal Tunnel Injuries
When you find yourself in need of workers’ compensation benefits, it is important to be sure you make your best possible presentation and arguments at your hearing. It is generally much easier to defeat an employer’s appeal of your successful workers’ compensation hearing (and award of benefits) than it is to mount a successful appeal…
Read MoreTruck Driver Wins Claim for Temporary Total Disability Benefits After Falling Out of His Truck
Achieving a successful result in your initial workers’ compensation benefits hearing is very important. If you succeed and your employer appeals, there are limited ways the employer can win. An appeal that essentially asks the Reviewing Board to reweigh the evidence very likely won’t succeed. The workers’ compensation judge is the trier of fact and…
Read MoreA Boston Paramedic Was Still Entitled to His Workers’ Compensation Benefits Despite Being Suspended from His Job
Once you’ve successfully filed a workers’ compensation claim and obtained an award of benefits, your employer may attempt various techniques to stop paying, or avoid paying entirely, the benefits you were awarded. In one recent Supreme Judicial Court case, the employer tried to avoid paying because the benefits recipient was suspended from his job, and the law…
Read MoreCancer Can Be a Work-Related Injury for Firefighters in Massachusetts
Firefighter exposed to toxic smoke The Massachusetts Senate approved a firefighter cancer bill that will enable firefighters and other state workers, such as police officers who are regularly exposed to dangerous fire related conditions, to treat cancer as a work related/line of duty injury. This change offers increased protections to first responders who put their…
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