Ponte v. Malina Co.

OPINION

FLANDERS, Justice.

This is a workers’ compensation case involving an employee who suffered more than one incapacitating, work-related injury in 1986 from an on-the-job accident. It presents us with the following issue: did the expiration of any applicable time period bar the employee’s attempt in 1993 to amend a 1986 memorandum of agreement (MOA) and to obtain workers’ compensation benefits based upon an original injury that was not included in the 1986 MOA? 1 For the reasons set forth below, we hold that no applicable filing period had expired to bar this injured employee’s 1993…