HINCKS v. ROBERT MITCHELL CO.


740 A.2d 992 (1999)

1999 ME 172

Peter HINCKS v. ROBERT MITCHELL CO. et al.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided November 24, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James G. Fongemie (orally), James J. MacAdam, McTeague, Higbee, MacAdam, Case, Cohen & Whitney, P.A., Topsham, for employee.

Thomas R. Kelly (orally), Elizabeth Eddy Griffin, Robinson Kriger & McCallum, for Maine Employers' Mutual.

Stephen Hessert (orally), Norman, Hanson & DeTroy, LLC, Portland, for Great American.

Before WATHEN, C.J., and CLIFFORD, RUDMAN, DANA, SAUFLEY, ALEXANDER, and CALKINS, JJ.


WATHEN, C.J.

[¶ 1] The insurers, Great American Insurance Co. and Maine Employers' Mutual Insurance Co. ("MEMIC") appeal from a decision of the Workers' Compensation Board, granting the employee's petitions relating to work-injuries that occurred in 1985 and 1994. The insurers challenge the retroactive application of 39-A M.R.S.A. § 201(6) (Supp.1998), the apportionment of liability between insurers pursuant to 39-A M.R.S.A. § 354 (Supp.1998), and the...

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