Corporate Resource Management Inc. v. Southers

KELSEY, J., with whom CLEMENTS, McCLANAHAN, and HALEY, JJ.,

join dissenting.

When Lourenda Southers fell at work, she injured two separate parts of her body. She bruised her left shoulder and damaged the C5-6 facet joint of her cervical spine. Represented by counsel, Southers asserted a timely claim (which the employer agreed to compensate) alleging only a “contusion” to the “left shoulder.” She did not assert a claim alleging (nor *134did the employer agree to compensate) any injury to her cervical spine. To be sure, Southers’s counsel concedes on appeal that neither he nor his client even knew…