MA DIA Actively Recruiting Impartial Physicians

The Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents is actively promoting its Impartial Physician Program as it continues to recruit physicians to participate in helping to fairly resolve medical disputes in workers' compensation cases. In 1991, the Massachusetts Legislature acted to eliminate a problem. Medical reports submitted to the DIA often favored the position of the side that hired the physicians who wrote them. As Massachusetts law requires judges to base their decisions in medical matters on the strength of the medical evidence in the record, medical reports at the time were volum...