Month: May 2018

In a much anticipated ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that employers may use arbitration agreements and class action waivers to preclude most employment-based claims by employees from reaching a courthouse. If these employment documents are drafted properly and presented to employees, companies cannot be hauled to court for most claims (they need to be arbitrated) and they cannot be…

A Little Background One of the hottest topics in Workers’ Compensation is the use of medical marijuana. Massachusetts is one of 29 states permitting medical marijuana. However, what makes this topic so complicated is that at the Federal level, marijuana remains a Schedule 1 substance under the Federal Controlled Substances Act. To add more complication, between 2009 and 2013, the…