Kotch v. American Protective Services, Inc.

[¶ 1] The employers in this consolidated appeal challenge decisions of hearing officers of the Workers’ Compensation Board finding that the employees have permanent whole body impairments exceeding 11.8%. The decisions mean that the employees are not subject to the 260-week limitation for partial incapacity benefits in 39-A M.R.S.A. § 213 (2001). The employers contend that the hearing officers erred in considering the employees’ permanent whole body impairments which resulted from combining the effects of the work injuries with causally unrelated pre-exist-ing conditions. We affirm.

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