What to do when your Employer tries to get you to return to work? You’ve sustained an injury on the job causing you to go out of work. You are currently receiving workers’ compensation benefits. You’ve been receiving medical treatment, through workers’ compensation, which has been slow. Both you and…
How Much Is My Workers Comp Case Worth? This is one of the most common questions asked of attorneys practicing in workers compensation, or any personal injury type of law. For someone who has sustained a work-related injury, with potentially career ending consequences, this is often times their primary concern.…
What to do when your Employer is uncooperative following an injury at work? You’ve been injured at work. Your doctor says you’re disabled from working. You need to file a claim for workers’ comp benefits, and you need certain information to do so. Unfortunately, your Employer is refusing to give…
The Department of Industrial Accidents Reviewing Board recently held that the standards M.G.L. chapter 152, section 27 were not met, thus affirming the decision of the Administrative Judge. Click here for a link to the case. M.G.L. chapter 152, Section 27, pertains to situations involving an injury caused by the…
Recently, the DIA Reviewing Board in Boston addressed in a recent opinion what percentage a work injury must contribute to establish a “compensable injury” under the Massachusetts Workers’ Compensation Act, where multiple, non-work-related factors are present. In this most recent case, Jane Sullivan v. Centrus Premier Home Care, the Insurer…
Attorney William H. Troupe recently received a favorable decision from the DIA Reviewing Board in Boston. The case involved a registered nurse who injured her back while helping to transfer a patient. She began receiving workers’ compensation temporary total disability benefits for approximately five months, at which point the self-insurer…
The Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents Reviewing Board recently addressed the issue of when and how a workers’ compensation claim should be dismissed. In the end, the case was recommitted back to the hearing level for further findings of facet. The reviewing board essentially ruled that situations like this are…
In a recent decision, the Department of Industrial Accidents Reviewing Board in Boston, ruled that in a claim for section 34A permanent and total disability benefits, where a previous decision found the employee partially disabled, the Employee has the burden of proving, not only that his condition “worsened” to the…