Massachusetts Workers Compensation Lawyers Blog
Workers’ Compensation is generally considered a no-fault system. Essentially, a worker who is injured on the job does not need to prove he or she was injured as result of any negligence on behalf of his or her employer, but only that he or she was injured and that injury occurred on the job.
However, it should be noted that there is often more to the question of whether an injury occurred on the job that one might think. One of the major issues that arises is when an accident occurs on the way to work and on the way home from work. Generally, a worker is not entitled to workers’ compensation by a result of what is known as the coming and going rule. Continue reading