Category: Newsworthy

Shortly after the Law Court’s landmark decision in Bailey v. City of Lewiston, 2017 ME 160 (July 20, 2017), the Appellate Division has had an opportunity to apply the holding of that decision in a claim involving an attempt to revise a prior PI determination.  The Bailey decision is extremely significant, as the Court held...

It has long been recognized that when the amount of entitlement to benefits for incapacity has been established by Board decree, that determination may later be revised based upon evidence of a change of economic circumstances.  A recent decision of the Appellate Division addressed the issue of whether work search evidence, without more, can be...

Incapacity benefits are based upon the pre-injury average weekly wage, which in most cases is the average of the employee’s earnings received during the 52-week period preceding the injury. In the vast majority of cases earnings received during this period are simply averaged together and the resulting figure is deemed to reflect what the employee’s...

Section 214(1)(A) provides employers with a strong mechanism for controlling costs in compensation claims.  Specifically, if an employer extends an offer of reasonable employment to an injured employee who is out of work due to an injury, and if the employee refuses that offer without good cause, the employee “is no longer entitled to any...

Norman, Hanson & DeTroy is proud to announce that sixteen of its attorneys have been named to the 2018 edition of The Best Lawyers in America, the oldest and most respected peer review publication in the legal provision. First published in 1983, Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive annual peer-review survey comprising of nearly...

By Christopher C. Taintor, Esq.   Disability discrimination has been a fertile area of litigation for several years.  The United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission reports that in fiscal year 2016, it received more than 28,000 charges which included some allegation of discrimination on the basis of disability – roughly double the number reported in 2005. ...

By Jonathan W. Brogan, Esq.  We all live in an information exploded age.  E–mail, social media, computer files and records, satellite tracking systems, and video are a daily part of all of our lives.  Because they are a part of all of our lives, they have now become an integral part of the discovery process...

A variant of “Petya” is just the latest massive ransomware cyberattack currently crippling businesses and government offices across Europe and the United States. The particular focus on the Ukraine again points to Russia as the likely source, but the true identity of the actors is still unknown. The increased sophistication and frequency of these threats...

Norman Hanson & DeTroy is honored to be included among the top of the “Highly Recommended” law firms in the State of Maine in the 2017 edition of Benchmark Litigation’s “The Guide to America’s Leading Litigation Firms and Attorneys”. In addition, the following attorneys received individual recognition from Benchmark Litigation: Local Litigation Stars Jonathan W....

Chambers & Partners USA 2017 has recognized Norman Hanson & DeTroy as a Top Firm for the category Litigation: General Commercial. Additionally, Norman Hanson & DeTroy is proud to announce that the following attorneys received the “Ranked Lawyer” distinction in the Chambers & Partners publication: Emily A. Bloch – Litigation: Medical Malpractice & Insurance Jonathan...

Adrian Kendall, member in the NHD’s Corporate and Commercial Law and Credit Union Law practice groups, has been appointed to serve on the Board of Trustees of the Maine Rural Development Authority. The Maine Rural Development Authority focuses on the rural areas of Maine that have not experienced the same level of economic development success...

Most of us are accustomed to telling our experts to be careful because anything they put in writing can be discovered by the other side.  This is because former versions of both the Federal and Maine Rules of Civil Procedure required the disclosure of “the data or other information considered by the witness in forming...