Chapter 153

Section 5. The amount of damages awarded in an action under section one for a personal injury to an employee, in which no damages for his death are awarded, shall not exceed four thousand dollars.

Section 6. No action for the recovery of damages for injury under section one of this chapter or for death under section two B or six C of chapter two hundred and twenty-nine shall be maintained unless notice of the time, place and cause of the injury is given to the employer wit…

Section 7. If an employer enters into a contract, written or verbal, with an independent contractor to do a part of such employer's work, or if such contractor enters into a contract with a sub-contractor to do all or any part of the work comprised in such contractor's work with …

Section 8. An employer who has contributed to an insurance fund created and maintained for the mutual purpose of indemnifying an employee for personal injuries for which compensation may be recovered under section one or to any relief society formed under sections eighty-six, eig…

Section 9. A justice of the superior court may, upon petition setting forth in ordinary language that the servant or employee of a certain person, has been injured in the course of his employment, through some defect in the ways, works or machinery owned or used by the employer, …