Annual Report

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Page 51 - Technical rules of evidence or procedure not required. The commission or a commissioner or deputy commissioner in making an investigation or inquiry or conducting a hearing shall not be bound by common law or statutory rules of evidence...
Page 64 - ... any person whose employment is but casual or is not in the usual course of the trade, business, profession, or occupation of his employer.
Page 70 - The causative danger must be peculiar to the work and not common to the neighborhood. It must be incidental to the character of the business and not independent of the relation of master and servant. It need not...
Page 80 - ... if there is more than one person wholly dependent, the death benefit shall be divided equally among them, and persons partly dependent, if any, shall receive no part thereof; if there is no one wholly dependent and more than one person partly dependent, the death benefit shall be divided among them according to the relative extent of their dependency.
Page 37 - Loss of both hands, or both arms, or both feet, or both legs, or both eyes, or of any two thereof shall, in the absence of conclusive proof to the contrary, constitute permanent total disability. In all other cases permanent total disability shall be determined in accordance with the facts.
Page 67 - serious and willful misconduct" is described by the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts as being something "much more than mere negligence, or even gross or culpable negligence," and as involving "conduct of a quasi criminal nature, the intentional doing of something either with the knowledge that it is likely to result in serious injury or with a wanton and reckless disregard of its probable consequences.
Page 79 - If the employee leaves dependents only partly dependent upon his earnings for support at the time of his injury...
Page 79 - A child or children under the age of eighteen years (or over said age, but physically or mentally incapacitated from earning), upon the parent with whom he or they are living at the time of the death of such parent, there being no surviving dependent parent.
Page 58 - Act shall be exclusive as regards injuries received outside this State by accident arising out of and in the course of such employment ; and all contracts of hiring in this State shall be presumed to include such an agreement.
Page 101 - ... equal to the same proportion of the weekly payments for the benefit of persons wholly dependent as the amount contributed...

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