Wilsey, Bennett Co. v. Grant

*384OPALA, Justice:

The dispositive issue before us is whether the one-year statute of limitations prescribed by 85 O.S.1971 § 43 1 is arrested, as against a secondarily liable principal (statutory) employer, by the timely filing of a claim against an uninsured immediate employer who is primarily responsible for payment of compensation. We grant certiorari and hold that a timely-filed claim will not operate to commence a compensation proceeding against a party-respondent so defi-ciently named on the claim form as to prevent the trial tribunal’s staff from sending notice of its filing to the right…