General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 153 Liability of Employers to Employees for Injuries Not Resulting in Death

• Massachusetts General Laws - Rights to compensation and of action - Chapter 153, 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--...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Knowledge by employee of defect or negligence - Chapter 153, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Unremedied defect reported to be defective - Chapter 153, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Continuation in employment after knowledge of defective railway equipment - Chapter 153, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Limitation of award - 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Notice of injury to employer - Chapter 153, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Employees of independent contractors and subcontractors; defects causing injuries - Chapter 153, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Amounts received from insurance funds and relief societies; mitigation of damages - Chapter 153, 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...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Examination of condition causing injury; court order - Chapter 153, 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...

Last modified: September 11, 2015