SECKMAN v. WYO-BEN, INC.

No. 89-41.

783 P.2d 161 (1989)

In the Matter of the Workers' Compensation Claim of James Michael SECKMAN, Appellant (Employee-Claimant), v. WYO-BEN, INC., Appellee (Employer-Respondent), v. STATE of Wyoming, ex rel. WORKERS' COMPENSATION DIVISION, Appellee (Objector-Defendant).

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

November 27, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert T. Moxley, Whitehead, Gage & Davidson, Cheyenne, for appellant.

Joseph B. Meyer, Atty. Gen., Josephine T. Porter, Sr. Asst. Atty. Gen., Cheyenne, for appellee, State of Wyo., ex rel. Workers' Compensation Div.

Before CARDINE, C.J., THOMAS, MACY and GOLDEN, JJ., and BROWN, J., Retired.


THOMAS, Justice.

The primary issue in this case focuses upon the statutory requirement for filing a claim for worker's compensation benefits within one year of the injury and is concerned with the jurisdictional nature of that statutory requirement. James Michael Seckman (Seckman) questions whether the trial court, on its own motion, could raise that statute as a bar to a claim for benefits for total temporary disability...

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