Kovacs v. Department of Labor & Industries

¶17 (dissenting)

What a difference a day makes. Twenty-four little hours.

Dinah Washington, What a Diff’rence a Day Makes (Mercury Records 1959).

¶18 The Department of Labor and Industries (DLI) ignores a critical word in the controlling statute, snubs a *941companion statute, promotes old bad dicta rather than new good dicta, and shuns the liberality intended for worker compensation statutes. I would affirm the trial court’s ruling and therefore dissent. Principles of statutory construction and the public policy of protecting injured workers compel a ruling that John Kovacs timely filed his worker…