Month: October 2020

SOME IMPORTANT NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN MASSACHUSETTS WORKERS’ COMPENSATION THE MEDICAL MARIJUANA ACT DOES NOT PROVIDE FOR THIRD-PARTY REIMBURSEMENTS. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has affirmed in Wright’s Case, a Department of Industrial Accidents Reviewing Board decision that denied an employee reimbursement from his Workers’ Compensation insurance company for medical marijuana expenses to treat chronic pain stemming from two prior work-related…

THERE IS NOW A THIRD BASIS FOR MASSACHUSETTS JURISDICTION Mark Mendes’s Case, Mass., SJC-12857, slip op. (Oct. 29, 2020) Newly-nominated Chief of the SJC Justice Kimberly Budd has expanded Massachusetts Jurisdiction beyond the former constraints of where the contract of employment was made and where the injury occurred to now include the “location of the employment relationship.” This third test…