LADD v. GRINNELL CORP.


728 A.2d 1275 (1999)

1999 ME 76

Chester LADD v. GRINNELL CORPORATION and Hanover Insurance Co.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided May 17, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey L. Cohen (orally) McTeague, Higbee, MacAdam, Case, Watson & Cohen, Topsham, for employee.

Stephen W. Moriarty (orally), Norman, Hanson & DeTroy, LLC, Portland, for employer.

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


RUDMAN, J.

[¶ 1] Chester Ladd petitions from a decision of the Workers' Compensation Board denying his petition for restoration. The Hearing Officer concluded that the employee's unwillingness to cross a union picket line could not, as a matter of law, constitute "good and reasonable cause" for a refusal of an offer of post-injury employment pursuant to 39-A M.R.S.A. § 214(1) (Supp.1998). We disagree, and remand for a determination of the reasonableness...

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