Coulombe v. Anthem Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Maine, Inc.

[¶ 1] Anthem Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Maine, Inc., appeals from a decision of a hearing officer of the Workers’ Compensation Board granting the employee’s petition for award and awarding partial incapacity benefits. Anthem challenges the hearing officer’s interpretation of Board Rule chapter 1, § 5(3)(A), which permits the inclusion of fringe benefits in the employee’s post-injury wages “to the same extent” that fringe benefits are included in the pre-injury wages. Me. W.C.B Rule ch.l, § 5(3)(A). Because the Board Rule represents a clarification of an ambiguity in the governing statute and…