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WILLIAMS v. TYSON'S FOOD, INC.

900 A.2d 195 (2006)

2006 ME 66

Diana WILLIAMS v. TYSON'S FOOD, INC., et al.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: June 12, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laura Lee Klein (orally), Senior Staff Attorney, Worker Advocate Division, Portland, for employee.

Robert J. Piampiano (orally), Ann I. Brandt, Troubh Heisler Piampiano Hark Andrucki, Portland, for employer.

James J. MacAdam, MacAdam Law Offices, P.A., Portland, for amicus curiae United States Steelworkers of America.

Panel: SAUFLEY, C.J., and CLIFFORD, DANA, ALEXANDER, CALKINS, LEVY, and SILVER, JJ.

ALEXANDER, J.

[¶ 1] Tyson's Food, Inc. appeals from a decision of a hearing officer of the Workers' Compensation Board (Jerome, HO) determining that Diana Williams was entitled to workers' compensation benefits after she had been fired from a post-injury job for excessive late arrivals at work. Tyson's contends that 39-A M.R.S. § 214(1)(E) (2005) prohibits an award of benefits when an employee loses post-injury employment due to fault, and that the...

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