Legal Opinion

Viveiros's Case

Massachusetts Appeals Court

Decided November 28, 2001No. 99-P-1939PublishedCited by 3 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtKantrowitz, J.

The main issue to be explored in this worker’s compensation case centers on the employee’s claim that there were shortcomings in the report of an independent medical examiner (IME) prepared pursuant to G. L. c. 152, § 11 A. We hold that the burden was upon the employee, not the administrative judge sua sponte, to move to supplement the medical record.

Background. The employee, Mary Rose Viveiros, appeals from a decision of the reviewing board of the Department of *297Industrial Accidents, which affirmed the decision of an administrative judge denying additional benefits from February 8, 1996,…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Sponatski's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1915
  2. Commonwealth v. BookerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1982
  3. Commonwealth v. TobinMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1984
  4. Commonwealth v. MahoneyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1987
  5. O'Brien's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1996

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3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Carpenter's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2010
  2. Commonwealth v. LeneskiMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2006
  3. Castillo v. Cavicchio Greenhouses, Inc.Massachusetts Appeals Court · 2006

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