After deaths, lawmakers agree to extend death benefits to transportation workers killed on the job • Maine Morning Star

After deaths, lawmakers agree to extend death benefits to transportation workers killed on the job • Maine Morning Star

Two Maine Department of Transportation employees, James Brown and Dwayne Campbell, were killed in January in a crash in Waterville. (Photo via Maine DOT)Maine lawmakers have passed a bill to extend death benefits to Department of Transportation workers killed on the job.  The legislation cruised through both chambers of the Maine Legislature and was approved for funding by the budget committee over the weekend. It now heads to Gov. Janet Mills f…