Court Opinion

ID: 9936190
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2024-02-09 18:57:30.51353+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:30:28.967241
License: Public Domain

I concur in the result that the statute of limitation for suit of workmen's compensation has expired and that there is no bar of estoppel to employer pleading the statute. However, it appears to me that the discussion of estoppel is not appropriate under the facts even as stated by employee. If *Page 413 
there was in fact a job-related injury, employee was aware of her right to claim workmen's compensation. She instead, of her own decision, elected to claim sick and accident benefits. She was not misled or induced by the employer to delay filing for workmen's compensation within the statutory time. She knowingly accepted other benefits available to her. She thereafter worked for more than five years before determining to claim compensation. Clearly she was not entitled to maintain her suit.