Claim of Runge v. National League of Baseball

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed January 5, 2011, which, among other things, dismissed claimant’s 1997 workers’ compensation claim as time-barred.

As relevant to this appeal, claimant injured both knees while on a treadmill as part of an annual physical in March 1997. The employer and its workers’ compensation carrier did not controvert the claim, but submitted a form C-669 in February 1998 indicating that payment had not begun because there was no lost time beyond seven days. Claimant did not appear at an April 1998 hearing and the case was closed. Nonetheless,…