Massachusetts Statutes

Section 71. Except as provided in the following section, such county, city, town or district shall not be liable in any action for a personal injury sustained by a laborer, workman or mechanic in the course of his employment by such county, city, town or district, or for death re…

Section 72. A laborer, workman or mechanic entering the service of such county, city, town or district who would, if injured, have a right of action against the county, city, town or district by law, may claim or waive his right of action as provided in section twenty-four, and s…

Section 73. Any person entitled under section sixty-nine to receive compensation from the commonwealth or from such county, city, town or district and any person entitled under section thirty-one, thirty-four, thirty-four A, thirty-five, thirty-five A or thirty-six to receive com…

Section 73A. Any employee who by reason of partial disability is entitled to receive compensation as provided by section sixty-nine from the commonwealth, or from such county, city, town or district, and who in the opinion of the head of any department or of any appointing office…

Section 74. Sections sixty-nine to seventy-five, inclusive, shall apply to all laborers, workmen and mechanics in the service of the commonwealth or of such county, city, town or district under any employment or contract of hire, expressed or implied, oral or written, including t…

Section 74A. Any governmental unit, which words as used in this section shall mean the commonwealth or any political subdivision thereof or any municipal gas or electric commission, may, by action of the executive or board having jurisdiction in the commonwealth, the county commi…

Section 75. Every board, commission and department of the commonwealth, and every such county, city, town and district shall through its executive officers or board, designate one or more persons, as it may deem necessary, to act as its agent or agents in furnishing the benefits …

Section 75A. Any person who has lost a job as a result of an injury compensable under this chapter shall be given preference in hiring by the employer for whom he worked at the time of compensable injury over any persons not at the time of application for reemployment employed by…

Section 75B. (1) Any employee who has sustained a work-related injury and is capable of performing the essential functions of a particular job, or who would be capable of performing the essential functions of such job with reasonable accommodations, shall be deemed to be a qualif…

Section 7A. In any claim for compensation where the employee has been killed or found dead at his place of employment or, in the absence of death, is physically or mentally unable to testify, and such testimonial incapacity is causally related to the injury, it shall be prima fac…

Section 7B. In any claim for compensation by an employee, which is denied by an insurer or self-insurer, no statement in writing signed by the claimant, or statement taken on a recording instrument, concerning the facts out of which the claim arose, given by such claimant, or a p…

Section 7C. Any party appearing before the division of dispute resolution may be heard in person, or may be represented by an attorney or by any other person designated by such party. No person who is not an attorney shall be compensated for representing a claimant in such a proc…

Section 7F. The department shall keep and maintain a record of filing fees charged under section ten, penalties levied under section seven and section eight, and attorneys' fees ordered under section thirteen A, where such filing fees, penalties, or attorneys' fees are required t…

Section 7G. The senior judge in consultation with the commissioner shall promulgate rules setting forth the required documentation to be attached to any claim for benefits or complaint for modification or discontinuance of benefits. The attachment of all required documentation sh…

Section 8. (1) An insurer which makes timely payments pursuant to subsection one of section seven, may make such payments for a period of one hundred eighty calendar days from the commencement of disability without affecting its right to contest any issue arising under this chapt…

Section 86. Within fifteen days of an order or decision of the division, of a member or of a reviewing board, or the approval of a memorandum of agreement by the division, with respect to a claim by an employee of the commonwealth, a city, a town or a district which has accepted …

Section 9A. Whenever a medical question is in dispute in any case, and an impartial physician has not, prior to seven days before the date assigned for each hearing thereof, been appointed by the administrative judge, the employee may engage his own physician, and one additional …

Section 1. If personal injury is caused to an employee, who, at the time of the injury, is in the exercise of due care by reason of— First, A defect in the condition of the ways, works or machinery connected with or used in the business of the employer, which arose from, or had n…

Section 2. An employee or his legal representatives shall not be entitled under section one of this chapter or under chapter two hundred and twenty-nine to any right of action for damages against his employer if such employee knew of the defect or negligence which caused the inju…

Section 3. If a defect in the ways, works or machinery of an employer has been reported to the person whose duty it is to remedy said defect, or cause it to be remedied, or to report its existence, and such defect is not remedied within a reasonable time, and by reason of said de…

Section 4. An employee of a railroad corporation injured by any locomotive, car or train used contrary to any provision of sections one hundred and fifty-five and one hundred and fifty-seven to one hundred and fifty-nine, inclusive, of chapter one hundred and sixty shall not be d…

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, …

Section 1. The term ''assignment'', as used in this chapter, shall include every instrument purporting to transfer an interest in or an authority to collect the future wages or salary of a person.

Section 2. No assignment of or order for wages or salary to be earned in the future to secure a loan of less than three thousand dollars shall be valid against an employer of the person making such assignment or order until the assignment or order is accepted in writing by the em…

Section 3. No assignment of or order for future wages other than one subject to the preceding section shall be valid for a period exceeding two years from the making thereof, nor unless made to secure a debt contracted prior to or simultaneously with the execution of said assignm…

Section 4. No assignment under section three shall be valid unless a copy thereof is delivered to the assignor by the assignee at the date of the execution of such assignment. No such assignment shall be binding on the employer of the assignor until a copy of the assignment and a…

Section 5. The standard form of assignment shall be as follows: Know All Men by these Presents. That I, of in the county of , for a valuable consideration, to me paid by , of , the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, do hereby assign and transfer to said all claims and deman…

Section 6. No assignment of future earnings shall be valid against a trustee process, unless before service of the writ upon the alleged trustee the assignment has been recorded in the office of the clerk of the town where the assignor resides at the time of such record.

Section 7. Except as above provided, an assignment of wages made in accordance with this chapter shall bind all wages earned by the assignor within the period named in such assignment.

Section 8. None of the foregoing sections of this chapter, nor section one hundred and forty-eight of chapter one hundred and forty-nine, shall be applicable to or control or prohibit the deduction of labor or trade union or craft dues or obligations, or making deposits in, purch…