MONTGOMERY COUNTY v. McDONALD

No. 190, September Term, 1988.

77 Md. App. 153 (1988)

549 A.2d 766

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND, ET AL. v. JAMES W. McDONALD, JR.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

November 7, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alfred J. Dirska (Dirska & Levin, on the brief), Columbia, for appellants.

Thomas L. Heeney (Heeney, Armstrong & Heeney, on the brief), Rockville, for appellee.

Argued before GILBERT, C.J., and BISHOP and GARRITY, JJ.


GILBERT, Chief Judge.

The Workers' Compensation Act, Md. Ann. Code art. 101, provides in § 26(b) that "[w]henever a disability from an occupational disease occurs to any employee it shall be the duty of the employer ... to at once report such disability to the Commission...." (Emphasis supplied.) The Act, however, neither defines the phrase "at once" nor does it expressly provide sanctions against the employer for failure to comply with its clarion command...

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