In New Hampshire, an ordinary commute usually stays outside workers' compensation. In Maine, a crash while making a delivery, driving between job sites, or running an employer...

In Maine, a smaller injury claim from a delivery-car crash often lands around $15,000 to $60,000, but the amount can drop fast if you waited and told nobody. If you were hurt...

Send a written evidence-preservation letter within 24 hours to the driver, the vehicle owner, and their insurer, and get the crash report number from Auburn Police or the...

The one thing a city insurer is hoping you never find out is that a road-defect claim can have a much shorter notice deadline than an ordinary insurance claim. Picture a...

The worst mistake people make is treating the insurance company's "IME" like a neutral medical appointment. What should have happened first: after a holiday-weekend crash on...

You have just 30 days to give notice of a work injury in Maine before you risk losing workers' compensation rights. Most people assume the system starts when the insurance...

The part insurers, landlords, and employers hope you never learn is this: they do not automatically get first cut of a Maine settlement. The money usually gets divided in...

What the insurance company does not want you to know about this is that a "test drive" can still be a work injury in Maine if your employer sent you, benefited from the trip,...

No. If you got rear-ended on Forest Avenue delivering supplies or heading between jobs in Portland and the ER ran your regular health insurance first, that usually does not...

Everyone says parents can just sign for their child, but actually yes, often they cannot. From the insurance company's perspective, they want you to believe a parent in...

Probably not. Maine law bars an employer from firing you, cutting your hours, or otherwise punishing you for pursuing a workers' compensation claim. Report the injury and...