Drummond Company, Inc. v. Bonner

PITTMAN, Judge.

Earl Wayne Bonner (“the employee”) sued Drummond Company, Inc. (“the employer”), for workers’ compensation benefits. The employee alleged that he was injured in a work-related accident in December 1994 and in a second work-related accident in February 1997, and that he suffered a permanent disability as a result of either injury or both injuries.

The employer filed a summary-judgment motion, arguing that the employee’s workers’ compensation claims are barred because the employee failed to list those claims on his Chapter 7 bankruptcy petition, which he filed a few months after…