Beaudoin v. Tambrands, Inc.

[¶ 1] Tambrands, Inc., appeals from a decision of a Workers’ Compensation Board hearing officer (Goodnough, HO), granting Carol Beaudoin’s petition for review, and awarding her an additional fifty-two weeks of benefits based on an amendment to the Board’s rules that extended the durational limit for partial incapacity benefits. See Me. W.C.B. Rule, ch. 2, § 2(7). Tambrands argues that the hearing officer erred in granting the petition for review because a prior decision of the hearing officer allowing Tambrands to cease paying benefits to Beaudoin had become final before the Board adopted the…