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Massachusetts Workers’ Compensation Sourcebook & Citator

Essential sources for workers' compensation practice

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  • Product Number: 2266127WCH
  • Publication Date: 11/19/2025
  • Edition: 2026 Edition
  • Copyright: © 2025 MCLE, Inc.
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    The Massachusetts Workers' Compensation Law Sourcebook and Citator is an absolutely essential desk reference, packed with both federal and state primary law sources you need close at hand when appearing before the Department of Industrial Accidents—on either side of the counsel table. The sourcebook contains the full text of Chapter 152, related statutes and pertinent sections of the state code, the text of the Medicare Secondary Payer Act, and other key laws that address disability, access, privacy, discrimination. The editor and reviewer have also selected useful practice guides published by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on injury, employer's issues, lump sum calculations, and vocational rehabilitation. Featured are guides for calculating awards for loss of function and disfigurement, a guide to using the Disability Management System (DMS), forms for every transaction at the Department of Industrial Accidents, as well as helpful sources for Section 15 petitions for third-party settlements. You'll also find the text of several landmark decisions that every workers' compensation practitioner should be familiar with Scheffler's Case , Commonwealth v. Lanigan , Hunter v. Midwest Coast Transport , Sciarotta v. Bowen , and Jose Ruiz's Case ; along with citations and summaries of recent decisions.

    Recent updates:

    • Update: November 2025

      Dear Subscriber:

      Thank you for choosing to keep current in workers' compensation law with this 2026 edition of MCLE's Massachusetts Workers' Compensation Sourcebook & Citator. Inside, you will find updated information such as the following:

      • Part 1, Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents. Updates to contact information, including personnel changes, new Office of Investigations instructions, developments in the Office of Safety Grants Program, and more.
      • Part 2, Selected Massachusetts and Federal Laws, Regulations, and Guidelines. DIA Chronic Pain Treatment Guideline 2024; updates to 45 C.F.R. pt. 164, pertaining to the Department of Health and Human Services HIPAA Simplification Text; and more.
      • Part 3, Practice Guides. Updates to The Injured Worker's Guide to Workers' Compensation ; amendments to G.L. c. 152, § 48, the Lump Sum Brochure; updates to the Vocational Rehabilitation Brochure.
      • Part 5, Circular Letters and Notices. DIA Circular Letter No. 361. October 1, 2024 (Effective October 1, 2024) Cost of Living Adjustments (COLA) Payment and Reimbursement Schedules & Requests; Maximum and Minimum Weekly Compensation Rates; Attorneys' Fee Schedule; Administrative Bulletin. March 4, 2024—DIA Procedures and Submission of Documents and Videos; Administrative Bulletin #13.2—Dispute Resolution Process, April 23, 2025; Administrative Bulletin #14—Paperless Conciliation Submissions, June 18, 2025; Chronic Pain Treatment Guideline, Rev. October 2024; and more.
      • Part 7, Department of Industrial Accidents Forms. New and updated forms.
      • Part 10, Case Digest. One Massachusetts Appeals Court case and several new decisions from the Reviewing Board on topics including average weekly wage, preexisting conditions, Section 34 benefits, and Section 34A benefits.

      We at MCLE trust that you will find this new edition useful in your practice and valuable in keeping your law library current.

      Cordially,

      MCLE Press

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    Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents

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    Selected Massachusetts and Federal Laws, Regulations, and Guidelines

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    Guidelines for Disfigurement and Loss-of-Function Under G.L. c. 152, § 36

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    Circular Letters and Notices

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    Key Massachusetts Decisions

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    Department of Industrial Accidents Forms

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    The Medicare Secondary Payer Act

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  • Editors & Authors

    Editor(s)

    Deborah G. Kohl, Esq., Law Offices of Deborah G. Kohl, Fall River

    Reviewer(s)

    Hon. Tamara L. Ricciardone, Department of Industrial Accidents, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston
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