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Statute of Limitations for Workers’ Comp

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Workers compensation time limits are a little different from a personal injury statute of limitations. If the insurance company accepts responsibility and pays one medical bill or one weekly benefit there is no time limit forever on filing additional claims. So the statute how we refer to it is the statute is told or suspended and there is no longer any problem with filing claims down the road if additional medical treatment is warranted or wage loss is warranted. The six-year time limit generally applies if there was no report of injury filed. If there was a report of injury filed by the employer there’s a three year time limit. So there’s different levels of time limits depending on whether an employer files a report of injury. This is something we get questions on and it’s just very easy to contact a lawyer and ask about time limit questions because time limits do act as a complete bar to recovery in work comp if you don’t file within a timely fashion.

Minneapolis workers’ compensation attorney Mark Olive discusses the statute of limitations for workers’ compensation cases.

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