This might be better posted in the Simply Lightwave forums, but there should be ways to deal with it.
Highend3d is a great place to find exporters/importers. From what I know of lightwave you need to export as an OBJ file and Maya can import those file types without issue.Highend 3D
Here's 1 I searched earlier Link
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