Gifford v. Nelson Freightways

COLLINS, Active Retired Justice.

Nelson Freightways and its insurer, Employers Insurance of Wausau, appeal a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board reinstating payment of benefits to Frank Gif-ford, an employee injured in 1987, after they unilaterally discontinued payments on January 1, 1993. They stopped paying benefits to Gifford, who has been incarcerated since 1990, on the ground that he is no longer entitled to receive payment pursuant to 39-A M.R.S.A. § 203 (Supp.1993) (a workers’ compensation recipient who becomes incarcerated forfeits his benefits). We hold that the plain language…