Stachowski v. Sysco Food Services of Baltimore, Inc.

We are called upon in this case to interpret a provision of the Workers’ Compensation Act, Maryland Code (1991, 1999 Repl.Vol., 2006 Cum.Supp.), §§ 9-101 to -1201 of the Labor and Employment Article. 1 We must decide whether a claimant who filed for modification of an award under § 9-736(b) met the statutory requirement of filing within five years of the “last compensation payment.” We shall hold that petitioner’s application to modify his award is timely because we find that the term “last compensation payment” is based on the date when the last payment by check was received by the claimant,…