Helinsky v. C & P Telephone Co.

ALPERT, Judge.

Statutory construction and the attendant linguistical gymnastics that pertain to the timeliness of a claim of occupational disease under Maryland’s Workers’ Compensation Act (“Act”) are the tasks presented to us by Mary P. Helinski, appellant, (“Ms. Helinski”) and Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company, appellee, (“C & P”) who were, respectively, employee and employer. Ms. Helinski, whose claim for workers’ compensation was denied by the Workers’ Compensation Commission (“Commission”), sought relief from the Circuit Court for Anne Arandel County. No recourse was found there,…