Workers' Compensation FAQs

If you are completely unable to work you may be entitled to total disability benefits. These benefits are 60% of your gross weekly wages. If you have some work capacity and can partially perform your job duties, then you may collect partial disability benefits equal to 75% of your total disability rate.

Boston workers compensation attorney Christopher Earley fights to get you the benefits you deserve.

Fees for Massachusetts workers compensation lawyers are set by law. If a claim is denied and we are successful in getting you workers compensation benefits, the insurance company pays us. If a lump sum is reached, the attorney’s fee is either 15% or 20% of the settlement, depending on the terms of the settlement.

You generally in Massachusetts are prohibited from suing your employer for a workers’ compensation accident.

These benefits are paid by your employer’s workers’ compensation insurance company. The employer’s premiums to its insurance company provides these benefits to injured workers.

Some benefits include payment for medical bills as well as weekly payments for missed time from work, due to the work injury.

All employers in Massachusetts must have workers’ comp I insurance. If there is no insurance, the injured worker must file a claim with the Trust Fund found at the Department of Industrial Accidents.

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.