Wentworth v. Manpower Temporary Services

McKUSICK, Chief Justice.

On January 18, 1985, Bertha Went-worth gave her employer, Manpower Temporary Services, 1 notice of an injury to her hands and arms. Manpower failed to file a timely notice of controversy and failed to make payments as required by the early-pay system in the Workers’ Compensation Act. See 39 M.R.S.A. § 51-B (1989 & Supp.1990). In April 1987, after a hearing on Wentworth’s petition for award of compensation, the commission ordered Manpower to make the retroactive payments it owed to Wentworth for her periods of total and partial incapacity since January 1985 and to…