A divided Massachusetts Appeals Court upheld a jury verdict for a mail carrier who was bitten by a dog, even though it should not have been allowed to hear evidence of his receipt of federal workers’ compensation benefits.
Case: David v. Kelly, No. 20-P-706, 10/25/2021, published.
Facts: Michael David worked as a mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service. On May 27, 2014, he was covering a vacationing coworker's mail route in the town of Harvard.
When he got out of his mail truck, Jonathan and Donna Kelly's dog bit him multiple times.
David called the postm...
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