Calif. 5th Rejects Awareness-Starts-Clock Argument

A claimant's awareness that his stress symptoms were work related for more than a year before filing a claim was insufficient to begin the statute of limitations period, the California 5th District Court of Appeal ruled in an opinion not certified for publication in official reports. Mariposa County argued in Mariposa County v. WCAB, F050217, 11/9/06, against a trial court's finding that an initial claim for a cumulative trauma stress injury was timely filed. Bryce Johnson began working in 1985 for the county and became a deputy chief probation officer. Johnson in 2002 began experienc...