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Timestamp: 2015-06-30 14:34:56
Document Index: 794954069

Matched Legal Cases: ['§34', '§34', '§1', '§34', '§35', '§11']

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Workers’ compensation – Worsening of condition
By: Tom Egan October 9, 2014	Where an administrative judge, finding that an employee failed to prove that his psychiatric condition had worsened since the close of the record in an earlier hearing, denied his claim for §34 or §34A incapacity benefits, that finding was supported ...
Workers’ compensation – Impartial examination – Fee
By: Tom Egan October 3, 2014	Where (1) an employee’s request to “opt out” of an impartial examination was untimely and (2) she did not pay the examination fee or obtain a waiver, she did not perfect her appeal and was properly ordered to pay costs ...
By: Tom Egan September 15, 2014	Where an employee was denied benefits because his injury occurred while he was installing a cupola on a barn at his own residence, rather than while he was working as an employee of a home renovation company, there was no ...
Workers’ compensation – Back injury
By: Tom Egan September 9, 2014	Where an employee sustained a work-related injury to her back, (1) the judge permissibly overruled the insurer’s objections to the employee’s leading questions during a deposition of the treating surgeon, (2) the causal relationship requirement of §1(7A) was satisfied because ...
By: Tom Egan August 22, 2014	Where an employee was injured while painting the exterior of a house, the judge did not err in determining the work was seasonal in nature and in using the employee’s previous year’s earnings to compute his average weekly wage. “The ...
Workers’ compensation – Attorney – Fee
By: Tom Egan August 13, 2014	Where an attorney was awarded a fee of $5,250, a recommittal is necessary for a quantum meruit analysis. “This case is before us on remand from the Massachusetts Appeals Court following our decision in Brancheau v. Bowes, Inc., 23 Mass. ...
Workers’ compensation – Exacerbation of injury
By: Tom Egan August 5, 2014	Where an employee injured his arm at one job, then exacerbated the injury at a subsequent job, he was properly awarded a closed period of §34 benefits and ongoing §35 benefits, and his settlement with an insurance agency precludes his ...
Workers’ compensation – Self-contradictory examiner’s opinion
By: Tom Egan July 31, 2014	Where the employee was awarded weekly permanent and total incapacity benefits after a back injury, the award cannot stand because the §11A opinion was self-contradictory, rendering it inadequate as a matter of law. Accordingly, the case must be recommitted for ...
Workers’ compensation – Incapacity – Knee – Back
By: Tom Egan July 7, 2014	Where a hearing judge concluded that an employee’s knee and back injuries did not render him permanently and totally incapacitated, the judge properly evaluated the employee’s communication skills, experience and medical limitations based upon the employee’s testimony and the vocational ...