Fowler v. Titus Manufacturing Co.

BRIGHTMIRE, Judge.

Did the employer’s failure to advise its employee of her right to file a workers’ compensation claim following notice of -her job-related heart attack toll the statute of limitations? The lower court held it did not. We hold, however, it did and vacate its order.

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The 57-year-old claimant, Joy Fowler, went to work as a laborer for Titus Manufacturing Company in October 1981. One day she began lifting and carrying some large metal air vents weighing “probably sixty or seventy pounds.” Suddenly, she said, “I felt like I had a heartburn, I started getting weak and I broke out in…