Wassberg v. Anaconda Copper Co.

This is an appeal from an order of the Workers’ Compensation Court, holding that the employer-defendant was estopped from asserting the one year statute of limitations provided in section 39-71-601, MCA, as a bar to claimant’s request for compensation under the Workers’ Compensation Act. We reverse.

The facts leading to this appeal are as follows: The claimant, Ar*312thur Wassberg was employed by the Anaconda Company as an underground miner on an intermittent basis from 1956 to 1981, with one three year period in the Army, and numerous other interruptions apparently due to claimant’s own choice.

On…