Hadley v. American General Life Insurance Co.

BACON, Presiding Judge.

In this workers’ compensation case we are asked to decide whether the one-year limitation period in which to file a claim runs from the last date medical treatment is given or from the date the payment for medical treatment is actually made. The court en banc affirmed the trial judge, who determined the one-year limitation period runs from the date of treatment. We affirm.

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Claimant, Dale Oren Hadley, was injured on November 8, 1978, and subsequently received emergency room medical treatment on November 16, 1978. The respondent, American General Life Insurance Co., paid…