Klimas v. Great Northern Paper Co.

McKUSICK, Chief Justice.

This workers’ compensation case raises again an issue we addressed in Pottle v. Bath Iron Works Corp., 551 A.2d 112 (Me.1988): When does a workers’ compensation payment by an employer or its current insurer following a second injury have the effect of tolling the statute of limitations 1 on a claim on an earlier work-related *257injury? In Pottle we held that such a payment by the second insurer did not toll the statute if neither the employer nor the first insurer was put on notice that the payment related to the first injury. We today hold that, conversely, a workers’…