HORNBY, Justice.
In these consolidated cases we examine the "Early Pay System" added to Maine's Workers' Compensation Act in 1983. 39 M.R.S.A. § 51-B (Pamph.1988). We conclude that, by failing to file a notice of controversy within 44 days from the time an employee tells an employer that lost work time is caused by a work-related injury, the employer accepts compensability of the injury at the level of the employee's claim until it persuades the Commission to...
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