Source: http://masslawyersweekly.com/category/department-of-industrial-accidents/page/16/
Timestamp: 2015-07-30 14:35:08
Document Index: 594280313

Matched Legal Cases: ['§36', '§30', '§36', '§13', '§34', '§1', '§34', '§13', '§34', '§13']

Department of Industrial Accidents | Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly | Page 16
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Workers’ compensation – Assault by former coworker
By: Tom Egan October 13, 2011	Where a workers’ compensation claimant has challenged an administrative judge’s denial and dismissal of his claim for weekly incapacity and medical benefits for severe injuries sustained when a former co-worker assaulted him with a baseball bat, the assault did not occur on the employer’s premises and did not arise out of his employment, so the decision should be affirmed.
Tagged with: DIA
Workers’ compensation – Res judicata – Loss of function – Additional medical evidence
By: Tom Egan October 6, 2011	Where an administrative judge denied and dismissed an employee’s claim for §36 loss of function benefits and §30 medical benefits, (1) the judge erred in denying the §36 claim on res judicata grounds and (2) the record is unclear as to the basis for the introduction of additional medical evidence, so the decision must be vacated and the case recommitted for further findings of fact.
Tagged with: Loss of function Res judicata
Workers’ compensation – Emotional disability – Counsel fees
By: Tom Egan September 30, 2011	Where an employee successfully claimed benefits for an emotional disability arising out of a series of incidents at work, he should have been awarded fees pursuant to G.L.c. 152, §13A(5).
Tagged with: Counsel fees DIA Emotional disability
By: Tom Egan September 29, 2011	Where an administrative judge failed to consider a claimant’s additional medical evidence, so we recommit the case for consideration of that evidence and for further findings.
Workers’ compensation – Preemption – Defense Base Act
By: Tom Egan September 29, 2011	Where the claimant appeals from a decision denying and dismissing his claim for workers’ compensation benefits, the Department of Industrial Accidents lacks jurisdiction to adjudicate his claim because he was paid benefits under the Defense Base Act, which contains an exclusivity clause that expressly preempts the claim.
Tagged with: Defense Base Act
Workers’ compensation – Combination injury
By: Tom Egan September 29, 2011	Where the self-insurer appeals from a decision awarding the employee §34A permanent and total incapacity benefits, although the judge erred as to his reason for rejecting the application of §1(7A)’s combination injury provisions to the employee’s claim, the error is harmless and thus the decision should be affirmed.
Tagged with: 'Combination' injury
Workers’ compensation – Medical benefits
By: Tom Egan September 7, 2011	Where the insurer appeals from a decision awarding the employee ongoing G.L.c. 152, §34 total incapacity benefits and §§13 & 30 medical benefits for the employee’s lower back and right leg injury, the case must be recommitted because of the judge’s faulty causation findings.
Workers’ compensation – Inpatient treatment – Probation
By: Tom Egan September 7, 2011	Where an employee served 90 days of inpatient treatment at a rehabilitation center as part of his probation for a federal offense, his commitment was not an incarceration, and the judge’s decision to allow a self-insurer to recoup benefit payments made to the employee during that period must be reversed.
By: Tom Egan September 1, 2011	Where an employee sought workers’ compensation benefits based on a physician’s opinion that the employee’s rotator cuff tendonitis and impingement syndrome were causally related to the employee’s work injury, the application for benefits was properly rejected on res judicata grounds.
Workers’ compensation – Deposition of treating physician – Judge’s discretion
By: Tom Egan September 1, 2011	Where an employee was awarded G.L.c. 152, §34A permanent and total incapacity benefits as a result of her disability stemming from bilateral knee injuries, a right shoulder injury and right carpal tunnel syndrome, and §§13 and 30 benefits for a right total knee replacement, a recommittal is required to allow the administrative judge to exercise his discretion regarding the self-insurer’s request to take the deposition of the employee’s former treating physician.
Negligence – Franchise – Delivery driver
Education – Research misconduct – Administrative exhaustion
Real property – Subdivision – Conditions – Modifications
Commercial – Preliminary injunction – Competition