Opinion ID: 2627717
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Heading: Oklahoma's Interpretation Of Limitations Applicable To The Workers' Compensation Act Governs All Components Of A Compensation Claim Unless The Legislature Expressly Declares Otherwise; Jurisprudential Gloss on Statutory Law Constitutes a Part Of Enacted Law Rather Than An Injected Common-Law Component

Text: ¶ 7 Extant jurisprudence announces an across-the-board set of rules holding that the employer's voluntary payment for a claimant's medical care (a) constitutes an employer's conscious recognition of liability and (b) operates to toll or waive the time bar. [9] The doctrine of tolling the limitations period by employer's conduct does not inject an extrastatutory component into the corpus of compensation law. [10] This is so because a court opinion that places a meaning upon statutory language becomes ipso facto and eo instante a part of the statutory law's text and takes effect simultaneously with the statute's effectiveness. [11] Absent a contrary expression in the Workers' Compensation Act, the very same rule of construction is always applied to like aspects of compensation law. [12] C.