Key legal question
Whether the insured was capable of placement and entitled to unemployment benefits for 15 October to 3 December 2005.
Extracted holding
No. Although she was willing to take a permanent job, her chances of being hired for the very short interim period were extremely low, and she had not exhausted all reasonable job-search efforts.
Extracted reasoning
The court upheld the lower court's assessment that the insured had limited her search to short-term work between two hotel contracts. The damage-mitigation doctrine does not excuse a claimant who, in the circumstances, should also have searched for permanent positions.