Supreme Judicial Court Says Worker Did Not Timely File Petition to Restore Benefits

Maine’s highest court ruled that an administrative law judge properly dismissed a worker’s petition for the restoration of benefits for a 1996 injury as untimely. Katherine Stovall worked for New England Telephone Co. She began to experience pain in her right hand, fingers and wrists due to a work-related injury in 1996. Stovall took a leave of absence from work because of her pain in May 1998. She returned in 1999, took a medically recommended break for another issue and then returned to work again in April 2000, restarting treatment for her hand and wrist pain after that.&...