Lawson v. Lear Seating Corp.

OPINION

BIRCH, Chief Justice.

In this ease, the Special Workers’ Compensation Appeals Panel concluded that Sheila I. Lawson, the employee, failed to commence her action for benefits within one year of the accident causing injury. After a thorough review of the record, we find that Lawson commenced her action within the applicable period of limitations.

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For more than twenty years, Sheila Lawson was employed by Lear Seating Corporation as a production line worker. In the late 1980’s, she began to experience pain and numbness in her hands and sought medical treatment from her family physician,…