Workers Compensation Summary of Reviewing Board Cases March 2017

Causal Relationship Steven Vallee v. Brockton Housing Authority, ____ Mass. Workers Comp. Rep. ____ (Harpin, J. 3/15/2017). The Employee appeals the decision denying his claim for weekly monetary and medical benefits after 3/30/2012. The Reviewing Board affirmed the decision opining that it was the Employees burden to provide medical evidence that his psychological disability after......

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Workers’ Compensation Summary of Reviewing Board Cases – September, 2016

Penalties Section 8(1) Cornelia DeLeon v. Department of Correction MASAC, ____ Mass. Workers Comp. Rep. ____ (Horan, J. 9/22/2016). The Self-Insurer appealed a decision awarding a Section 8(1) penalty for the Self-Insurers failure to make timely payments. The Parties entered into an agreement whereby the Self-Insurer would pay $14,000 in Section 36(k) benefits (a compromised......

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