COLE v. SILVERADO FOODS, INC.

No. 98,150.

78 P.3d 542 (2003)

2003 OK 81

Regina COLE, Petitioner, v. SILVERADO FOODS, INC., Travelers Insurance Co., and The Workers' Compensation Court, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

October 7, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan H. Jones, Wilson Jones, P.C., Tulsa, OK, for Petitioner.

H. Grady Parker, Jr., Looney, Nichols & Johnson, Oklahoma City, OK, for Respondents.1


OPALA, V.C.J.

¶ 1 The issue on certiorari is whether the provisions of 85 O.S. Supp.1997 § 43(B), which were enacted during the claim's pendency and whose terms shorten from five to three years the period within which unadjudicated elements of a compensation claim must be pressed for resolution before they stand barred by lapse of time, govern this case. We answer in the negative.

I.

ANATOMY OF THE LITIGATION

¶ 2 On 22 July...

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