Bean v. H.E. Sargent, Inc.

GLASSMAN, Justice.

The defendant-employers in these consolidated cases, H.E. Sargent, Inc. and Diamond International Corporation, appeal from the decisions of the Appellate Division of the Workers’ Compensation Commission affirming the decisions of a commissioner that the lump sum posthumous awards of permanent impairment benefits to the estates of employees Herbert Bean and Albert Lonko were not barred by the provisions of 39 M.R.S.A. § 60 (1978). We affirm the decisions.

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Each of the employees sustained a work-related injury that was compensated pursuant to an agreement with his employer duly…