Joyce v. S.D. Warren Co.

[¶ 1] The S.D. Warren Company has an in-house medical department providing employees treatment for on the job injuries. The services of that clinic have proven a significant generator of dispute on the issue of whether receiving in-house medical treatment tolls the statute of limitations provisions in the Workers’ Compensation Act when the employer, having treated the employee’s injury in the medical department, does not file a First Report of Injury with the Workers’ Compensation Board.1

[¶ 2] S.D. Warren appeals from a decision of a Workers’ Compensation Hearing Officer, granting the…