Amherst is a town located in the Hampshire County of Massachusetts. As of the 2010 census, the population was 37,819, and according to the American Community Survey 5-Year Estimate, it had grown to 39,260, making it the largest community in Hampshire County. Amherst is an education hub; it is home to Amherst College, Hampshire College, …
Lowell Workers’ Compensation
Lowell is the fourth largest city in Massachusetts, located in the Middlesex County. It was founded in the 1820s, and by the 1850s, Lowell had the largest industrial complex in the United States. Cotton harvested and produced in the South was sent to Lowell to be woven into textiles. By 1860, the number of cotton …
Workers’ Compensation for Work-Related Heart Attacks
Under Massachusetts workers’ compensation laws, benefits are available to make up for lost wages and pay for medical care for any work-related injury. This is as true for heart attacks as it is for broken bones. In fact, pursuing a heart attack claim is not much different from pursuing a claim for any other injury. …
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Workers’ Compensation Lawyers
Workers’ Compensation Lawyers Serving all of Massachusetts Keches Law Group was founded in 1986 as a workers’ compensation firm with only three injury lawyers. Thirty years later, the firm has over fifty lawyers in six Massachusetts and Rhode Island offices, each of whom is well-equipped to help clients and their families get the compensation they …
Medical Records and Your Workers’ Compensation Case
Medical Records and Your Workers’ Compensation Case Insufficient medical documentation is, by far, the most common reason that workers’ compensation claims are denied or delayed. This is true at all stages of a workers’ comp. case. Information Contained within Your Medical Records Affect Whether Your Claim will be Paid or Denied at all Stages of …
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Forms 105, 106, and 108 & What They Mean for Your Workers’ Comp Benefits
If you are injured at your job and unable to continue working, your employer’s workers’ compensation insurance carrier can pay you weekly benefit checks and pay for your medical treatment for 180 days without actually accepting liability for your injury. This means that at any point during the 180 days, the insurer can stop paying …
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Are Volunteers Covered Under Worker’s Compensation Laws?
Under Massachusetts General Laws 152 which is the worker’s compensation statute, 1[4] ’employees are described as every person in the service of another under any contract of hire, expressed, or implied, oral or written excepting” As to the exceptions the key exception is that there must be an employer, employee relationship and there must be …
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Sole Proprietors Are Not Always Covered Under Workers Compensation Law
If you or someone you know owns their own business in Massachusetts, it is important to know several things regarding Worker’s Compensation coverage. Sole proprietors and partners in a partnership are not automatically covered under worker’s compensation insurance. A recent Department of Industrial Accidents decision denied coverage to a man who operated a home construction …
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