Source: http://masslawyersweekly.com/category/Department-of-Industrial-Accidents/page/14/
Timestamp: 2017-01-17 06:53:08
Document Index: 191645262

Matched Legal Cases: ['§34', '§35', '§11', '§34', '§34', '§35', '§1', '§50']

Department of Industrial Accidents – Page 14 – Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly
Home / Department of Industrial Accidents (page 14) / Department of Industrial Accidents	Workers’ compensation – Partial incapacity – Earning capacity
Where the employee appeals from an award of a closed period of §34 benefits and ongoing §35 benefits on the grounds that the lifting restrictions found by the judge were internally inconsistent and erroneously based on lay, rather than medical, testimony, there was no reversible error in the judge’s decision.
Where an employee’s claim for disfigurement benefits was dismissed, the dismissal order was proper given the employee’s failure to pay the appeal fee mandated by G.L.c. 152, §11A(2).
Where an administrative judge denied and dismissed an insurer’s complaint for modification or discontinuance of §34 temporary total incapacity benefits, the denial should be affirmed despite the insurer’s argument that the judge made inconsistent findings.
Where an employee was awarded ongoing partial incapacity benefits, the case must be recommitted because the record does not reveal whether the judge ruled upon the insurer’s motion to admit additional medical evidence.
Where the insurer appeals from a decision awarding §34 benefits beginning in 2010 for a 1997 work injury, (1) the judge did not err in finding the insurer responsible for the employee’s ongoing incapacity, as the medical evidence supports a continuing causal relationship to the 1997 injury; (2) the judge’s application of §35B to establish the compensation rate the employee was paid must be upheld, but the judge’s finding that the employee suffered “no new injury” must be vacated; and (3) the judge did not make adequate findings regarding §1(7A), and therefore the case must be recommitted for further findings on that issue.
Workers’ compensation – Enhanced attorney’s fee – Interest
Where a state employee was awarded total incapacity benefits, the judge below did not err in awarding an enhanced counsel fee, but did err in adding interest pursuant to §50.
Workers’ compensation – Incapacity – Medical evidence
Where the employee appeals from a decision denying and dismissing his claim for weekly partial incapacity benefits, any claimed error is harmless in light of the employee’s failure to produce medical evidence that his back condition worsened to cause incapacity after the prior finding that his incapacity had ceased.
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