Johnson v. State Accident Insurance Fund Corp.

The author Gertrude Stein is said, on her deathbed, to have beseeched her life-long companion, Alice Toklas: "What is the answer?” When there was no reply, Stein fell silent, then spoke her final recorded words: "In that case, what is the question?”1 We confess to having created a similar dilemma in this case. Claimant, in her petition for reconsideration, takes us to task for our former opinion in which we held that claimant’s occupational disease claim was not timely filed. Claimant points out that she prevailed on the timeliness issue before the Workers’ Compensation Board (Board), that…