Section 8. An employer who has contributed to an insurance fund created and maintained for the mutual purpose of indemnifying an employee for personal injuries for which compensation may be recovered under section one or to any relief society formed under sections eighty-six, eighty-seven and eighty-eight of chapter one hundred and fifty-nine, or the corresponding provisions of earlier laws may prove in mitigation of the damages recoverable by an employee under said section one, such proportion of the pecuniary benefit received by such employee from any such fund or society on account of such contribution of said employer as the contribution of such employer to such fund or society bears to the whole contribution thereto.
Structure Massachusetts General Laws
Part I - Administration of the Government
Title XXI - Labor and Industries
Chapter 153 - Liability of Employers to Employees for Injuries Not Resulting in Death
Section 1 - Rights to Compensation and of Action
Section 2 - Knowledge by Employee of Defect or Negligence
Section 3 - Unremedied Defect Reported to Be Defective
Section 4 - Continuation in Employment After Knowledge of Defective Railway Equipment
Section 5 - Limitation of Award
Section 6 - Notice of Injury to Employer
Section 7 - Employees of Independent Contractors and Subcontractors; Defects Causing Injuries
Section 8 - Amounts Received From Insurance Funds and Relief Societies; Mitigation of Damages
Section 9 - Examination of Condition Causing Injury; Court Order