Zengerle v. City of Socorro

OPINION

BIVINS, Judge.

In this worker’s compensation case, defendants appeal from a judgment awarding plaintiff total disability and related benefits, claiming as error the trial court’s refusal to find plaintiff’s claim barred by the statute providing time limitations for filing a claim. This appeal presents the question of when does it, or when should it, become reasonably apparent to a worker, who suffers from a gradually developing job-related stomach ulcer, that she has a compensable injury on account of which she is entitled to compensation. The trial court found that such occurred when…