Source: http://masslawyersweekly.com/category/Department-of-Industrial-Accidents/page/2/
Timestamp: 2014-03-09 07:05:57
Document Index: 679556019

Matched Legal Cases: ['§34', '§1', '§34', '§35', '§13', '§1', '§34', '§35', '§11', '§34', '§34', '§35', '§1']

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Workers’ compensation – ‘Coming and going’ rule
By: Tom Egan September 13, 2013	Where an administrative judge found that an employee suffered a compensable injury while driving home after completing an extra work assignment, that decision must be affirmed, as the employee’s accident did not fall within the “coming and going” rule because the employee did not have a fixed place of employment and was compensated for her travel time depending on the nature of the assigned case.
Workers’ compensation – Anxiety disorder – Total incapacity
By: Tom Egan August 22, 2013	Where the self-insurer appeals from a decision awarding the employee, a corrections officer, §§34 and 35 incapacity benefits in relation to his anxiety disorder, the self-insurer’s §1(7A) defense was correctly rejected, but, given the lack of evidence to support a finding of total incapacity, the award of §34 benefits must be vacated and the case recommitted for further findings of fact on the issue of the employee’s earning capacity.
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Workers’ compensation – Partial incapacity – Earning capacity
By: Tom Egan August 9, 2013	Where an employee and one insurer have appealed from an administrative judge’s decision awarding ongoing §35 benefits from the date of the recurrence of a prior work-related injury, there was no error, as the judge’s finding of partial incapacity is supported by the evidence and the judge clearly articulated the rationale for her findings on earning capacity, which were also supported by the evidence.
Workers’ compensation – Medical treatment – Methadone – Fees
By: Tom Egan August 7, 2013	Where an insurer appeals from an employee’s award of §§13 and 30 benefits for medical treatment in relation to a back injury, the administrative judge did not err by (1) dismissing the insurer’s §1(7A) defense, (2) ordering the insurer to pay for the employee’s methadone treatment nor (3) awarding the employee counsel fees.
Workers’ compensation – Credibility
By: Tom Egan August 2, 2013	Where an employee whose claim for workers’ compensation benefits was denied now argues that the administrative judge’s credibility findings fail to articulate her reasoning process with sufficient detail to allow for review, the employee’s argument is unavailing because a judge is under no obligation to explain her credibility findings.
Workers’ compensation – Lifting restrictions – Lay testimony
By: Tom Egan June 27, 2013	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.
Workers’ compensation – Appeal fee
By: Tom Egan June 21, 2013	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).
Workers’ compensation – Lifting restrictions – Inconsistent findings
By: Tom Egan June 18, 2013	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.
Workers’ compensation – Additional medical evidence
By: Tom Egan June 14, 2013	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.
Workers’ compensation – Causation – Ongoing incapacity
By: Tom Egan June 14, 2013	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.
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