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Massachusetts Workers’ Compensation Sourcebook & Citator

Essential sources for workers' compensation practice

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  • Product Number: 2253679WCH
  • Publication Date: 11/20/2024
  • Edition: 2025 Edition
  • Copyright: © 2024 MCLE, Inc.
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    The Massachusetts Workers' Compensation Law Sourcebook and Citator is an absolutely essential desk reference, packed with both federal and state primary law sources you need close at hand when appearing before the Department of Industrial Accidents—on either side of the counsel table. The sourcebook contains the full text of Chapter 152, related statutes and pertinent sections of the state code, the text of the Medicare Secondary Payer Act, and other key laws that address disability, access, privacy, discrimination. The editor and reviewer have also selected useful practice guides published by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on injury, employer's issues, lump sum calculations, and vocational rehabilitation. Featured are guides for calculating awards for loss of function and disfigurement, a guide to using the Disability Management System (DMS), forms for every transaction at the Department of Industrial Accidents, as well as helpful sources for Section 15 petitions for third-party settlements. You'll also find the text of several landmark decisions that every workers' compensation practitioner should be familiar with Scheffler's Case , Commonwealth v. Lanigan , Hunter v. Midwest Coast Transport , Sciarotta v. Bowen , and Jose Ruiz's Case ; along with citations and summaries of recent decisions.

    Recent updates:

    • Update: November 2024

      Dear Subscriber:

      Thank you for choosing to keep your sourcebook information current with this 2025 edition of the Massachusetts Workers' Compensation Sourcebook & Citator . Inside, you will find updated information, including the following:

      • Contact information updates. See Part 1 for changes to contact information for court personnel and for updated listings of third-party vendors.
      • Circular Letters and Administrative Bulletins. See Part 5 for the full text of two new circular letters and one new administrative bulletin.
      • Cost of Living Adjustments (COLA). Part 5 also includes recently released and updated COLA amounts for 2025.
      • Forms. See Part 7 for six updated Department of Industrial Accidents forms.
      • Case Digest. See Part 10 for summaries of cases, including those in which
        • an employee sought Section 34 temporary total incapacity benefits, along with Sections 13 and 30 medical benefits, in the context of the employee’s contracting of COVID;
        • the court considered whether an employee’s giving of notice of their injury “as soon as practicable” was arbitrary and capricious; and
        • a failure to produce evidence that the employee’s fibromyalgia existed prior to her 2016 accident resulted in the insurer’s inability to satisfy the necessary predicates to support its Section 1(7A) defense.

      We at MCLE trust that you will find this new content useful in your practice and valuable in keeping your law library current.

      Cordially,

      MCLE Press

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    Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents

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    Selected Massachusetts and Federal Laws, Regulations, and Guidelines

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    Practice Guides

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    Guidelines for Disfigurement and Loss-of-Function Under G.L. c. 152, § 36

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    Circular Letters and Notices

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    Key Massachusetts Decisions

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    Department of Industrial Accidents Forms

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    (Reserved for future use.)

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    The Medicare Secondary Payer Act

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    Case Digest

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  • Editors & Authors

    Editor(s)

    Deborah G. Kohl, Esq., Law Offices of Deborah G. Kohl, Fall River

    Reviewer(s)

    Hon. Tamara L. Ricciardone, Department of Industrial Accidents, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston
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