Source: http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/statutes/39-A/title39-Asec201.html
Timestamp: 2019-11-17 17:53:07
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§201', '§201', '§1', '§2', '§2', '§2', '§1', '§1', '§1']

Title 39-A, §201: Entitlement to compensation and services generally
§201. Entitlement to compensation and services generally
2. Injury while participating in rideshare programs. An employee injured while participating in a private, group or employer-sponsored car pool, van pool, commuter bus service or other rideshare program, having as its sole purpose the mass transportation of employees to and from work, for the purposes of this Act, may not be deemed to have received personal injury arising out of or in the course of employment. Nothing in the foregoing may be held to deny benefits under this Act to employees such as drivers, mechanics and others who receive remuneration for their participation in the rideshare programs.
3. Mental injury caused by mental stress.
[ 2017, c. 294, §1 (RP) .]
The amount of work stress must be measured by objective standards and actual events rather than any misperceptions by the employee; or [2017, c. 294, §2 (NEW).]
B. (TEXT EFFECTIVE UNTIL 10/1/22) (TEXT REPEALED 10/1/22) The employee is a law enforcement officer, firefighter or emergency medical services person and is diagnosed by an allopathic physician or an osteopathic physician licensed under Title 32, chapter 48 or chapter 36, respectively, with a specialization in psychiatry or a psychologist licensed under Title 32, chapter 56 as having post-traumatic stress disorder that resulted from work stress, that the work stress was extraordinary and unusual compared with that experienced by the average employee and the work stress and not some other source of stress was the predominant cause of the post-traumatic stress disorder, in which case the post-traumatic stress disorder is presumed to have arisen out of and in the course of the worker's employment. This presumption may be rebutted by clear and convincing evidence to the contrary. For purposes of this paragraph, "law enforcement officer," "firefighter" and "emergency medical services person" have the same meaning as in section 328-A, subsection 1.
This paragraph is repealed October 1, 2022. [2017, c. 294, §2 (NEW).]
[ 2017, c. 294, §2 (NEW) .]
5. Subsequent nonwork injuries. If an employee suffers a nonwork-related injury or disease that is not causally connected to a previous compensable injury, the subsequent nonwork-related injury or disease is not compensable under this Act.
6. Prior work-related injuries. If an employee suffers a work-related injury that aggravates, accelerates or combines with the effects of a work-related injury that occurred prior to January 1, 1993 for which compensation is still payable under the law in effect on the date of that prior injury, the employee's rights and benefits for the portion of the resulting disability that is attributable to the prior injury must be determined by the law in effect at the time of the prior injury.
[ 1997, c. 647, §1 (NEW) .]
1991, c. 885, §A8 (NEW). 1991, c. 885, §§A9-11 (AFF). 1997, c. 647, §1 (AMD). 2017, c. 294, §§1, 2 (AMD).