Gabler v. Embassy Suites Hotel

REIF, Presiding Judge.

Employee seeks review of the three-judge panel’s reversal of an award of benefits. The panel held that her claim filed January 25, 1989, for an admitted job-related injury of February 1, 1986, was “barred by the two (2) year statute of limitations. 85 O.S. § 43 (1985).” 1 Employee points to uncontroverted evidence that Employer’s insurance carrier made a payment on February 5, 1987, for authorized medical treatment, and asserts that this payment tolled the statute of limitations. She contends that she had two years from February 5, 1987, in which to file her claim and…