Larson v. Fred Salvucci Corp.

On August 7, 2000, the plaintiff Daniel Larson (“Larson”) suffered a work-related injury when he fell roughly forty feet from scaffolding at a work site in Billerica. At the time of his fall, Larson was an employee of the defendant Great Eastern, which was a masonry subcontractor of the general contractor, defendant Fred Salvucci Corporation (“Salvucci”). Larson applied for workers’ compensation benefits from Great Eastern but Great Eastern did not have workers’ compensation insurance. Under G.L.c. 152, §18, which obliges general contractors to honor the workers’ compensation claims of…