Parker v. Walter F. Newell Constr.

LIPEZ, Justice.

[¶ 1] The employer, Walter F. Newell Construction, appeals from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board granting the employee’s motion for attorney fees and awarding $1,100 in employer-paid fees relating, in part, to services rendered prior to mediation. The Board concluded that, although the employer’s attorney did not attend the mediation, the employer had been represented by counsel prior to the mediation, and therefore the employee was entitled to employer-paid attorney fees for pre-medi-ation services pursuant to 39-A M.R.S.A. § 325(5) (Supp.1997) and 39 M.R.S.A. §…