NICHOLS v. S.D. WARREN/SAPPI


928 A.2d 732 (2007)

2007 ME 103

Jeanne NICHOLS v. S.D. WARREN/SAPPI et al.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: August 7, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wayne Whitney (orally), McTeague, Higbee, Case, Cohen, Whitney & Toker, Topsham, for the appellant.

Thomas Quartararo, Cara A. Lovejoy (orally), Robinson, Kriger & McCallum, Portland, for the appellee.

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


LEVY, J.

[¶ 1] Jeanne Nichols appeals from a decision of a Workers' Compensation Board hearing officer (Greene, HO) granting the employer's petition for determination of offset. The hearing officer concluded that a lump sum payment that Nichols received pursuant to a permanent and total disability feature in her employer-funded group insurance policy constitutes a payment "under a disability insurance policy" subject to coordination under 39-A M.R.S. ...

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