Name
Pickering v. State of Maine, Department of Conservation
Insurance Company
Date Decided
March 21, 2017
Panel Members
Glen Goodnough
Tom Pelletier
Mike Stovall
Categories
Legal CausationTags
Lyme Disease Causation Work Related
File Size
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DownloadSummary from the Troubh Heisler Attorneys
Pickering worked as a forest ranger and developed Lyme disease from ticks he picked up in the course of his employment. Dr. Dubocq provided an “unrebutted medical opinion that his diagnosis was work-related,” and Judge Hirtle granted his petitions awarded incapacity and medical benefits. The Department appealed, but the Appellate Division affirmed the decision, finding “sufficient competent evidence in the record to support the ALJ’s finding that his Lyme disease was work-related.”