Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Maine Workers’ Comp Appellate Division: Administrative law judge’s decision that former employee provided timely notice of her “gradual injury” (defined as “a single injury caused by repeated, cumulative trauma without any sudden incapacitating event”) vacated and remanded for further consideration where ALJ had not properly determined the start of the 30-day notice period, which is the later of 1) the date the injury manifested itself or 2) the date of the employee’s awareness of the compensable nature of the injury
US District Court ME: Federal False Claims Act retaliation complaint dismissed where court found no plausible allegation of protected activity of reporting fraud on the government where employee complained that employer had, “engaged in a widespread practice of referring all MaineCare patients who were referred to physical therapy for the maximum number of physical therapy appointments allowed by MaineCare at Seaport’s in-house physical therapy department, irrespective of medical need, … and subsequently billing the MaineCare Medicaid program for those appointments”
MHRC: Minutes of November 18th Commission meeting include hiring announcement of new investigator and paralegal

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