Massachusetts Workers' Compensation Lawyer
For more than 30 years, our highly skilled Boston workers' compensation lawyers at Kantrovitz & Associates have exclusively represented individuals injured during the course of their employment, ensuring that they receive their right to compensation.
The Massachusetts workers’ compensation system is a “no fault,” comprehensive program that requires employers to have insurance in place for the protection of workers who suffer a job-related injury or disabling condition. In essence, a worker who is hurt on the job becomes eligible for medical benefits and, in many cases, disability benefits that replace lost wages. Benefits also are available to a surviving spouse and dependents if a worker is killed due to a work-related accident or illness. Vocational retraining is available, too, in many cases where an on-the-job injury prevents a worker from returning to the worker’s previous occupation.
Kantrovitz & Associates is one of the most well respected workers’ compensation firms in the Commonwealth for good reason: Because we fight for injured workers and we get results! Our goal is to make sure that you get the compensation that you are entitled to. Based in Greater Boston, Massachusetts, the workplace injury lawyers at Kantrovitz & Associates, P.C. have helped injured workers across Massachusetts, including but not limited to Boston, Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk and Plymouth. We also help Rhode Island and New Hampshire residents who were hurt on the job in Massachusetts. For a free, no obligation evaluation of your workplace injury, please contact us online. You may also call us toll free at 800-367-0871.
At Kantrovitz & Associates, If we don’t win, we don’t get paid. Yes, that’s right! The fees in a workers’ compensation claim are contingency based. Meaning, we don’t get paid unless we are successful. You pay nothing up front for our services. If your case resolves by way of a lump sum settlement, the attorney’s fees and expenses are deducted from the proceeds of the settlement. You pay nothing out of pocket. For a free legal consultation regarding your workers compensation claim, please contact us to speak with an experienced Massachusetts workers’ compensation lawyer.
Injured on the Job? Contact Our Workplace Injury LawyersMassachusetts workers’ compensation provides benefits to all injured workers who need medical treatment, and those who become disabled or unable to earn their full wages for five or more calendar days, or who die, because of a work-related injury or disabling condition. Benefits are available to workers who suffer physical injury, and also those who suffer from work-related mental or emotional disabilities, and occupational diseases. So what types of benefits might you be eligible to receive? That depends on your situation. There are a wide variety of benefits available to injured employees in Massachusetts and in some cases, an injured employee may even have rights and remedies above and beyond what’s available through the scope of the Massachusetts workers’ compensation system. At Kantrovitz & Associates P.C, our Boston workers’ compensation attorneys are here to ensure that you receive the maximum benefits you are entitled. The specific types of benefits available to injured Massachusetts employees, depending on the type and severity of the work-related injury or illness, are included below.
Medical BenefitsIf you require medical treatment because of your injury at work, you can receive treatment from the doctor of your choice. Sometimes, you may have to have an initial consultation with a physician specified by your employer, but afterward you can be treated by a doctor that you choose. You also can be reimbursed for your expenses related to medical treatment, including certain travel costs.
Temporary Total Disability BenefitsTemporary Total Disability Benefits are calculated at 60% of the gross average weekly wage you earned before your injury. When calculating gross average weekly wage, all earnings of the injured worker are taken into consideration, including but not limited to wages from overtime as well as bonuses. It should also be noted that if an employee works more than one job, the wages from all jobs must be included in the average weekly wage calculation.
Permanent and Total Incapacity BenefitsIf your work-related injury or illness results in a total and permanent disability, you become eligible to receive 66.67% of your gross average weekly wage, with a potential yearly cost of living increase.
Death Benefits for Survivors and DependentsA surviving spouse can receive up to 250 weeks of a deceased employees’ workers’ compensation benefits, plus annual cost of living increases. Those benefits can extend beyond that time if the surviving spouse has not remarried or is not yet self-supporting when the 250 weeks expire. The employer’s workers’ compensation insurer also must pay up to $4,000 for burial expenses.
Partial Disability BenefitsYou may be eligible to receive a weekly partial disability benefit if your injury at work results in a partial disability. This would be measured at 60% of the difference between the wages that you earned before and after your accident.
Permanent Loss of Function and Disfigurement BenefitsIf your work injury causes a permanent loss of function, or certain types of scars or bodily disfigurement, you could be eligible for a monetary benefit for those losses.
Subsequent Injury BenefitsIf you receive workers’ compensation, then return to work for two months or more and are subsequently re‐injured, you can receive compensation at the rate in effect at the time of the new injury (unless the old injury was paid in a lump sum settlement, which is a one-time payment in place of receiving ongoing benefits.
Vocational TrainingYou might be eligible for Vocational Rehabilitation, meaning job retraining , if your injury at work results in a permanent inability to perform the essential functions of your job. This can include job placement services, and retraining or education for new work, all paid for by your employer’s workers’ compensation insurer.
Workers’ Compensation Trust FundThe Massachusetts Workers’ Compensation Act creates a Trust Fund that makes payments to injured workers whose employers fail to obtain workers’ compensation insurance. The Trust Fund steps in to act as the “insurer” in place of the workers’ compensation coverage that an employer failed to provide. The Workers’ Compensation Trust Fund, within the Department of Industrial Accidents, administers benefits paid from the trust fund.
Speak With an Experienced Workers’ Compensation AttorneyIf you have suffered an injury at work, or you’ve developed a disabling condition because of your job, you may have questions about the Massachusetts workers’ compensation system. The attorneys at Kantrovitz & Associates P.C. would be glad to meet with you at your earliest convenience to go over your basic legal rights with respect to your work related injury. Our Boston workers' compensation lawyers believe in a hands-on approach, providing individual attention to every client we represent. Call us for a free case evaluation at 800-367-0871 or contact us online so we can get to work for you.