Opinion ID: 2627717
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Heading Rank: 6

Heading: the court's critique of the analysis tendered by this dissent

Text: ¶ 10 The court's stubborn refusal to recognize claimant's entitlement to the benefit of tolling by the employer's conscious acknowledgment of liability exposes the most serious flaw in its reasoning. It attributes to the remedial statutory time bar for reopening proceedings a category that the statute does not and cannot claim for itself  that of a substantive-law condition upon the claimant's reopening right rather than that of a garden-variety limitation. When occupying that position, which is forced upon the court by its rejection of tolling, the court is clearly in error. There is neither statutory nor jurisprudential basis for its view. The reopening time bar applicable here is remedial. Claimant cannot hence be deprived of the benefit of tolling. It is his due because he relies on a purely remedial statutory time limit. A.