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An appellate court in Massachusetts affirmed a determination by the Massachusetts Industrial Accident Reviewing Board that denied death benefits to the family of a business owner who sustained fatal injuries in an automobile accident as he traveled to check on a real estate investment in New Hampshire. The deceased, who was a principal in two separate businesses, one in New Hampshire, which maintained a workers’ compensation insurance policy on its employees, including the deceased, and another business, originally a restaurant, in New Hampshire. The New Hampshire business had earlier failed and the deceased had decided to sell the real estate. He had been on his way to meet a realtor and a prospective buyer when the accident occurred. The appellate court agreed that the fatal accident did not arise out of and in the course of the Massachusetts business.
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See Yang’s Case, 2019 Mass. App. LEXIS 102 (Aug. 13, 2019)
See generally Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law, § 68.01.
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