Thursday, November 3, 2016
- MHRC: 2016 Annual Report reflects that the Commissioners found “reasonable grounds” to believe discrimination occurred in 11.2% of the cases they heard (a decrease from the prior year’s 15.4%), new complaints filed decreased by 17.3% from the prior fiscal year (from 739 to 611), and disability discrimination represented 27% of complaints filed (a decrease from last year’s 39.7%)
- DOJ: New guide discusses and explains the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act integration mandate and the Supreme Court’s decision in Olmstead v. L.C. ex rel. Zimring, as applied to employment service systems for individuals with disabilities
- HUD: New rule implements the 2013 reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act to protect the housing of survivors of domestic and dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking
- Law Court: Oral arguments scheduled for November 8th and 9th include Oxf-16-50 (application of auto liability insurance exclusion for a vehicle “furnished” to an insured for “regular use”); Was-16-41 (whether trial court erred in denying plaintiff’s motion for an additur or new trial after jury found defendant negligent in deck collapse but awarded zero damages); Cum-16-86 (whether plaintiff provided sufficient proof of causation in attorney malpractice action arising out of alleged failure to properly controvert summary judgment motion despite absence of an expert opinion that plaintiff would have prevailed in the action if attorney had not been negligent); Fra-16-73 (whether “anti-stacking” provisions in underinsured motorist coverage of the insurance policies violate 24-A M.R.S. § 2902); And-16-76 (application of assault-and-battery exclusion in business insurance policy)
- Workers’ Comp Board: A panel of Administrative Law Judges held that an employer may not take a “credit” against ongoing workers’ compensation benefit liability for Social Security retirement benefits received by an employee in the past
- Bangor Daily: Maine inmate sues over access to transgender health care
- Bangor Daily: Brunswick settles lawsuit over former student who says he was assaulted in school bathroom
