Legal Opinion
B.F. Goodrich Co. v. Williams
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Decided May 24, 1988No. 69147PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LAVENDER, Justice:
Claimant, Virgil E. Williams, initiated a claim for workers’ compensation benefits for loss of hearing alleged to have resulted from cumulative trauma from exposure to hazardous levels of noise in the course of his employment with employer B.F. Goodrich Company. The claim was filed August 26, 1986. Claimant alleged the date of accident to be December 31, 1983, which was claimant’s last date of employment.
The only issue presented in the trial of the matter in the workers’ compensation court was whether the claim was time barred by operation of the statute of limitations. The…
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