The Supreme Judicial Court of Maine ruled that an injured worker could not establish her damages from her former attorney's alleged malpractice in failing to advise her to look for new work after her doctors told her to stop doing her old job.
Case: Allen v. McCann, No. CUM-14-261, 07/14/2015, published.
Facts: Bonnie Allen injured herself in 2002 while handling a high-pressure hose at a paper mill. She then hired attorney Alexander McCann to represent her in her workers' compensation claim.
Following her injury, Allen continued to work full-time under light-duty restrictions, but h...
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