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Generally any injury that occurs to an employee during the course and scope of employment should be covered and compensable under Massachusetts workers’ compensation law.

Any personal injury or psychological injury can be claimed under workers’ comp. As long as a doctor says the injury claimed by the employer arise out of and during the course and scope employment, then it should be covered.

These typically happen with car accident cases, as well as construction accident cases. These happen when the work injury is caused not by the employee’s employer, but by a third-party.

Employees who are injured during the course and scope of their employment. Workers’ comp does not apply to independent contractors.

The Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents is the court that hears and decides these cases. The court has five different branches located in Boston, Lawrence, Fall River, Worcester and Springfield.

Unlike with personal injury cases that have three year statute of limitations, workers’ compensation accident cases have four statutes of limitations.

A workers’ compensation lawyer can help you get the benefits you are entitled to. Frequently workers’ compensation insurance companies deny valid and legitimate claims brought by injured workers. When that happens, it is important to have a work injury attorney that can help if you receive any type of workers’ comp denial from an insurance company.

It depends. If you, or your slip & fall attorney can show that a property owner was negligent which led to your fall, and you sustained injuries from the fall, then you probably have a case.

It depends on some different factors. Can liability be established? How much are the medical bills? Did you lose time from work? Are the injuries minor, were catastrophic injuries sustained?

In the context of slip and fall accidents, negligence is when a property owner, or some other party responsible for a given property, fails to reasonably maintain it, causing injuries to someone else.