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Articles 1 - 13 of 13
Full-Text Articles in Workers' Compensation Law
The Farm Worker: His Need For Legislation, Susan Calkins
The Farm Worker: His Need For Legislation, Susan Calkins
Maine Law Review
Of America's ignored and invisible people, the farm worker is one of the most ignored and least visible. He is hidden by the crops as he works his way down the endless rows. Far from the cities where the laws are made and the issues of the day are debated, his voice is not heard. He is vitally necessary to this well-fed nation, and yet his needs are seldom considered. The legislators have not ignored the industrial worker. They have provided him with laws insuring a minimum wage, workmen's compensation and other such benefits. The farm worker, however, is expressly …
The Admiralty Clause And State Workmen's Compensation For Fishermen, Maine Law Review
The Admiralty Clause And State Workmen's Compensation For Fishermen, Maine Law Review
Maine Law Review
The current methods of compensating fishermen injured or killed at sea are products of federal law. Without exception, a fisherman or his representative must turn to federal law for compensation. Unlike certain maritime workers covered by a federal workmen's compensation scheme, the fisherman's remedies are exclusively judicial, burdened by the expenses and delays inherent in litigation. Although this method of determining rights and liabilities may be a satisfactory means of obtaining compensation for other types of seamen, it has come under increasing attack within the fishing industry. This Comment evaluates both the constitutionality and the practicability of state coverage of …
Tortious Withholding Of Insurance Benefits: Gibson V. National Ben Franklin Ins. Co., Maine Law Review
Tortious Withholding Of Insurance Benefits: Gibson V. National Ben Franklin Ins. Co., Maine Law Review
Maine Law Review
The Maine Workers' Compensation Act provides that an employer's compensation carrier shares the employer's immunity from common law suit. If the carrier delays or withholds benefits owed an injured employee under an approved compensation agreement, the Act imposes a fine on the carrier and permits the employee to recover the overdue compensation payments by invoking the equity powers of the Superior Court. The Act makes no provision for redress when the carrier refuses to pay, a potential limitation recently confronted by the Maine Supreme Judicial Court in Gibson v. National Ben Franklin Insurance Company. In reversing the trial court's dismissal …
Workmen's Compensation: Compensable Injuries; Awards; Relation Of Court And Commission, Maine Law Review
Workmen's Compensation: Compensable Injuries; Awards; Relation Of Court And Commission, Maine Law Review
Maine Law Review
During Justice Dufresne's term as Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, the court considered over sixty-five cases presenting issues that involved the state Workmen's Compensation Act. These decisions attempted to define both the concept of a compensable injury and the nature of workmen's compensation awards. Examination of the court's treatment of these two major components of the workmen's compensation system reveals the Law Court's attitude toward the system itself, the statutory scheme utilized by the Maine Legislature, and the administrative procedure employed in handling workmen's compensation claims. Consideration of the relationship between the court and the Industrial Accident …
Eligibility For Vocational Rehabilitation Under The Maine Workers' Compensation Act: Troubling New Standards, Robert T. Duddy
Eligibility For Vocational Rehabilitation Under The Maine Workers' Compensation Act: Troubling New Standards, Robert T. Duddy
Maine Law Review
In 1961, section 52 of the Maine Workers' Compensation Act was amended to include a new provision which states that a worker who suffers an industrial injury is entitled to vocational rehabilitation. Under section 52, vocational rehabilitation may be awarded if such services are "necessary and desirable" to restore the injured worker to gainful employment and "reasonable and proper" in scope. The language of section 52 pertaining to vocational rehabilitation has remained essentially unchanged since 1961, despite major developments in the functional, economic, and administrative theories underlying vocational rehabilitation. Narrowly construing section 52, the court in Lancaster v. Cooper Industries …
What Is Wrong With Maine's Occupational Disease Law?, Thomas R. Watson
What Is Wrong With Maine's Occupational Disease Law?, Thomas R. Watson
Maine Law Review
By enacting occupational disease laws, state legislatures stepped ahead of limited medical knowledge concerning the etiology of disease. Responding to public and political pressures, legislatures placed the responsibility for adjudicating claims based on disease on administrators whose procedural and evidentiary systems were designed for claims due to injuries. But the causal connection of disease to employment is not so easily shown; until quite recently, diseases were not thought to support the common law causes of action that gave rise to the quid pro quo of workers' compensation systems. This Comment first sketches the development of Workers' Compensation law and its …
Religious Beliefs, Unemployment Benefits, And Constitutional Choices: Flynn V. Maine Employment Security Commission, Mary Ann Lynch
Religious Beliefs, Unemployment Benefits, And Constitutional Choices: Flynn V. Maine Employment Security Commission, Mary Ann Lynch
Maine Law Review
The last decade has seen a growing number of individuals adopt fundamentalist, "born-again" Christianity. For these people, religion requires more than observance of a sabbath, weekly services, or financial commitment. Fundamentalist religion often requires its adherents to spread their religious beliefs with missionary zeal. Religion may be a constant preoccupation and as such, is brought into the work place. Thus, there is potential for conflict between the needs and demands of employers and the exercise of one's religion. While the free exercise clause of the first amendment may not always provide protection for employees against employers' requirements, it nevertheless serves …
Comeau V. Maine Coastal Services: The Quantum Theory And The Rescue Doctrine In Workers' Compensation, George F. Eaton Ii
Comeau V. Maine Coastal Services: The Quantum Theory And The Rescue Doctrine In Workers' Compensation, George F. Eaton Ii
Maine Law Review
Section 51 of the Maine Workers' Compensation Act provides that in order to be compensable, an employee's injury must arise out of and occur in the course of the employment. The decision of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court in Comeau v. Maine Coastal Services upheld the Workers' Compensation Commission's denial of the plaintiff's petition for an award of compensation. In reaching its decision, however, the Law Court departed from the long-settled analytical approach of treating the "arising out of" and the "in the course of" requirements as separate criteria both of which must be met in order to establish a …
Bouford V. Bath Iron Works: Defining Double Recovery Under State And Federal Compensation Laws For Maritime Workers, John Arthur Mccauley
Bouford V. Bath Iron Works: Defining Double Recovery Under State And Federal Compensation Laws For Maritime Workers, John Arthur Mccauley
Maine Law Review
In Bouford v. Bath Iron Works Corp., the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, sitting as the Law Court, held that an employer is not entitled to credit disability payments made under the federal Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act (LHWCA) against a subsequent obligation to pay a permanent impairment award for the same injury under the Maine Workers' Compensation Act (MWCA). While adhering to the principle against "double recovery" by employees in cases in which there is concurrent jurisdiction of federal and state compensation schemes, the Law Court reasoned that state permanent impairment awards are not duplicative of LHWCA disability benefits …
Dissell V. Trans World Airlines: Constitutional Limitations On The Workers' Compensation Commission's Subject-Matter Jurisdiction, Patricia A. Nelson-Reade
Dissell V. Trans World Airlines: Constitutional Limitations On The Workers' Compensation Commission's Subject-Matter Jurisdiction, Patricia A. Nelson-Reade
Maine Law Review
To rule upon a workers' compensation claim, the Maine Workers' Compensation Commission must determine that it has both personal and subject-matter jurisdiction. Personal jurisdiction is determined by applying Maine's "long-arm" statute. Subject-matter jurisdiction derives from the Commission's status as an administrative agency authorized to administer the Maine Workers' Compensation Act (MWCA). Although subject-matter determination generally involves a choice-of-law issue, in a workers' compensation claim having extraterritorial aspects, the Commission is not free to apply the compensation acts of other states that have contacts with the claim. Rather, the Commission may determine only if it has authority under the MWCA to …
Due Process And The Independent Medical Examiner System In The Maine Workers' Compensation Act, Sean T. Carnathan
Due Process And The Independent Medical Examiner System In The Maine Workers' Compensation Act, Sean T. Carnathan
Maine Law Review
Workers' compensation became front page news during the summer of 1991, when Maine's governor refused to sign the state's budget unless the Legislature reformed the system. Although the vehemence of the governor's demands stunned both the public and the Legislature, the dire state of workers' compensation was well known to those involved. In fact, the Legislature has debated reforming the system nearly every year, and sixteen significant changes have been made since the program's inception in 1915. In 1991, the Legislature focused on cutting costs. The system requires two types of highly paid professionals—doctors and lawyers. Therefore, an obvious way …
Employees Or Independent Contractors: A Call For Revision Of Maine's Unemployment Compensation "Abc Test", Christopher J. Cotnoir
Employees Or Independent Contractors: A Call For Revision Of Maine's Unemployment Compensation "Abc Test", Christopher J. Cotnoir
Maine Law Review
The Maine Employment Security Law governs whether one person performing services for another is an independent contractor or an employee for unemployment tax purposes. It requires many employers to pay unemployment taxes on individuals who, under the usual common law rules governing the employer-employee relationship, are independent contractors. This result, caused partly by the structure of the statute and partly by judicial interpretation, has the effect of discouraging business expansion, limiting entrepreneurial opportunities, and ultimately, hampering statewide economic development. This Comment first provides the historical background of unemployment compensation legislation at the federal and state levels. Employer liability and employee/independent …
Roy V. Bath Iron Works: Three Different Perspectives On An Unfortunate Situation, Erik Black
Roy V. Bath Iron Works: Three Different Perspectives On An Unfortunate Situation, Erik Black
Maine Law Review
Joseph Roy was an employee of Bath Iron Works (BIW) who suffered work-related injuries to his lower back in 1987 and to his neck in 1994 In 2005, Roy filed a petition for review of his workers' compensation benefits and sought, among other benefits, total incapacity benefits because his neck injury had worsened. A hearing officer from the Workers' Compensation Board found that Roy's work-related injuries had totally incapacitated him, but denied Roy total incapacity benefits after March 6, 2006, because a non-work-related liver condition had also caused him to become totally incapacitated. Roy appealed the decision to the Maine …