Read Our Articles About Workers’ Compensation Topics

Pierce, Pierce & Napolitano was founded in 1985 to serve people in the Salem area with injuries and disabilities. Since then, our attorneys have become leaders in Massachusetts for workers’ compensation law. We stay up-to-date on the many developments in the law and regularly contribute to the policymaking and legislative processes.

As trusted members of the community, we are committed to providing resources and additional information that can help people. We feel honored that our clients and neighbors trust is to provide reliable information on workers’ compensation issues in plain, everyday language. On this page, you can find some of the articles that we have written about workers’ comp and other, related issues.

• Benefit Boosters: How To Increase Your Client’s Workers’ Compensation Rate
  • “In the typical worker’s compensation case, the rate of benefits that an injured worker receives is based on a percentage of his/her average weekly wage up to a statutory weekly maximum amount.”
• The IME In Practice
  • “As a key element of the 1991 reform of workers’ compensation in Massachusetts, legislators introduced the very controversial impartial medical examination procedure in an attempt to eliminate the often conflicting partisan medical opinions presented by the claimant and insurer.”
• Top Ten List As To Why Injured Workers Retain Attorneys
  • “When I left a workers’ compensation defense law firm to open my own law practice representing injured workers instead of insurance companies, among my concerns was where would my clients come from?”
• What Is An IME?
  • “The phrase evokes an image of Marcus Welby and Ben Casey at twenty paces; scalpels or catheters at the ready.”
• Workers’ Compensation No Longer The Exclusive Remedy
  • “The history of Workers’ Compensation law is both interesting and varied. While most commentators trace its origins to Bismarck’s Germany of the late 1800’s, others have found early models of scheduled payments for loss of body parts among the pirates of the 13th century.”

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