Armco, Inc. v. Holcomb

The court declares a compensation claim, brought more than twenty-two months after injury, to be timely because the applicable one-year limitation period prescribed in 85 O.S.1981 § 43 remained arrested by the employer’s noncompliance with § 81 of the Act. The opinion is rested on the holding that by the third paragraph of § 8 the employer who has knowledge of an injury stands required, in every instance, to advise the worker personally of the right to file a claim. For the reasons to be stated, I am unable to give the paragraph under consideration the sweeping effect that the court…