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CENTRAL MAINE POWER CO. v. DEVEREUX MARINE, INC.

Docket: BCD-11-375

68 A.3d 1262 (2013)

2013 ME 37

CENTRAL MAINE POWER COMPANY v. DEVEREUX MARINE, INC., et al.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: March 26, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John B. Lucy, Esq. , Richardson, Whitman, Large & Badger, Bangor, and Henry Sorett, Esq. (orally), Brickley, Sears & Sorett, Boston, Massachusetts, for appellant Central Maine Power Company.

Barry K. Mills, Esq. (orally), Hale & Hamlin, LLC, Ellsworth, for appellees Devereux Marine, Inc., Devereux Family LLC, Andrea Devereux, William Stevenson, and Andrea Devereux, LLC.

Christian T. Chandler, Esq. , James L. Costello, Esq. , and Benjamin M. Leoni, Esq. , Curtis Thaxter LLC, Portland, for amicus curiae Bangor Hydro Electric Company.

Christian T. Chandler, Esq. , Curtis Thaxter LLC, Portland, and Kenneth P. Carter , Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC, New Orleans, Louisiana, for amicus curiae Edison Electric Institute.

Panel: SAUFLEY, C.J., and ALEXANDER, LEVY, SILVER, MEAD, GORMAN, and JABAR, JJ.

SAUFLEY, C.J.

[¶ 1] In this appeal from the denial of a motion to attach, we are asked to decide whether, pursuant to the Maine Overhead High-voltage Line Safety Act, 35-A M.R.S. §§ 751-761 (2012), Central Maine Power Company, as the owner of an overhead high-voltage power line, may be entitled to be fully indemnified by Devereux Marine, Inc., for damages that CMP paid to compensate a severely injured employee of Devereux Marine for injuries that the...

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