Is medical advice to an applicant for workers' compensation benefits sufficient to trigger the statute of limitations?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from City of Fresno v. Workers' Comp. Appeals Bd., 163 Cal.App.3d 467, 209 Cal.Rptr. 463 (Cal. App. 1985):
There is no real disagreement that medical advice to an applicant for workers' compensation benefits that his disability was caused by his employment is sufficient to trigger the statute of limitations. (See Hooker v. Workmen's Comp. Appeals Bd. (1974) 36 Cal.App.3d 698, 704-705, 111 Cal.Rptr. 766.)
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