Resort Companies Must Pay Paraplegic Worker Over Job Site Access

A wheelchair-using call center worker for a hotel and resort booker in Maine is entitled to the $500,000 he was awarded after a jury found that his employer failed to respond to his request for push-button, automatic entrance doors to his workplace, the First Circuit ruled.

The evidence showed that Ocean Properties Ltd. and AmeriPort LLC never followed up with Ryan Burnett on three separate occasions regarding his accommodation request, the court said.

Burnett, who is paraplegic as the result of a dirt bike accident years ago, first sought a change to the heavy wooden doors at the main entrance ...