Pratt v. Fraser Paper, Ltd.’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “While the incapacity for work resulting from the injury is total, the employer shall pay the injured employee a weekly compensation equal to 2 h his average gross weekly wages, earnings or salary, but not more than the maximum benefit under section 53-B, nor less than $25 weekly. 1. Annual adjustment. Beginning on the 3rd anniversary of the injury, weekly compensation under this section shall be adjusted annually. The adjustment shall be equal to the lesser of the actual percentage increase or decrease in the state average weekly wages, as computed by the Bureau of Employment Security, for the previous year or 5%. The annual adjustment shall be made on the 3rd and each succeeding anniversary date of the injury, except that where the effect of the maximum under section 53-B is to reduce"the amount of compensation to which the claimant would otherwise be entitled, the adjustment shall be made annually on July 1st.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Dunson v. South Portland Housing Authority

2. “While the incapacity for work resulting from the injury is partial, the employer shall pay the injured employee a weekly compensation equal to 2/3 the difference, due to said injury, between his average gross weekly wages, earnings or salary before the injury and the weekly wages, earnings or salary which he is able to earn thereafter, but not more than [133 1/3% of] the average weekly wage in the State of Maine as computed by the Employment Security Commission; ... and such weekly compensation shall be adjusted annually on July 1st so that it continues to bear the same percentage relationship to the average weekly wage in the State of Maine as computed by the Employment Security Commission, as it did at the time of the injury.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Bernier v. Data General Corp.

3. “the portion of the resulting disability that is attributable” to each work-related injury and to apply the law at the time of each injury. 39-A M.R.S.A. § 201(6) (2001) (emphasis added). Subsection 201(5), however, provides that when the employee suffers a subsequent nonwork-related injury that is causally unrelated to the work-related injury, this later injury”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dunson v. South Portland Housing Authority