Job Search with 300 Applications Not of 'Limited Scope'

A Maine hearing officer erred by ruling that a claimant's job search - which consisted of some 300 applications to employers - had an "unreasonably limited scope," the state Supreme Court ruled in a published decision.The high court reversed and remanded a hearing officer's decision granting permanent partial disability benefits and denying permanent total incapacity benefits in Avramovic v. R.C. Moore Transportation, No. WCB-07-680. The claimant's well-documented job search included applications to about 300 employers, with 250 of the applications being in accounting, bookkeeping ...