Workers' Compensation Claim of Seckman v. Wyo-Ben, Inc.

THOMAS, Justice.

The primary issue in this case focuses upon the statutory requirement for filing a claim for worker’s compensation benefits within one year of the injury and is concerned with the jurisdictional nature of that statutory requirement. James Michael Seckman (Seckman) questions whether the trial court, on its own motion, could raise that statute as a bar to a claim for benefits for total temporary disability and contends that the requirement was waived by the Wyoming Workers’ Compensation Division. Another issue is presented concerning the ruling by the district court that the…