Grindle v. State Ex Rel. Wyoming Worker's Compensation Division

This court incorrectly affirms the trial court’s finding that the accident of February 15, 1984 constituted a readily apparent injury, in disregard of the additional requirement for knowledge of compensability first established for Wyoming Worker’s Compensation law by Baldwin v. Scullion, 50 Wyo. 508, 62 P.2d 531, 108 A.L.R. 304 (1936).

This court has consistently held “that the Worker’s Compensation Act should receive a liberal construction to accomplish the benevolent purposes for which it was promulgated.” In re Barnes, Wyo., 587 P.2d 214, 218 (1978); Mor, Inc. v. Haverlock, Wyo., 566 P.2d…