Thompson v. Anchor Glass Container Corp.

OPALA, V.C.J.

{1 The dispositive issue on certiorari is whether the Court of Civil Appeals erred in sustaining the trial judge's denial of a compensation claim by an opinion rested on the claim's untimeliness and on the Workers' Compensation Court's want of cognizance to dfford relief from the statutory time bar by interposition of "equitable concepts." We answer in the affirmative.

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THE ANATOMY OF LITIGATION

T2 Lisa Thompson [claimant] testified that on 3 April 1999 she slipped at work on a piece of glass and injured her back. She went to a local hospital emergency room the next day when she…