Lamonica v. Holmes

WATHEN, Chief Justice.

[¶ 1] The employer, Ladd Holmes, appeals from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board granting the employee’s petition for restoration related to a 1977 injury. Although the employee suffered a subsequent injury in 1995 while employed by a second employer, the Board concluded that the subsequent injury was nonwork-related because the employee failed to give timely notice of that injury to preserve his workers’ compensation claim against his second employer, 39-A M.R.S.A. § 301 (Supp.1997). Ladd Holmes contends that the employee’s 1995 injury should have been…