Arkansas: Employer Estopped from Asserting Worker’s Claim Was Time-Barred

A worker's compensation claim was not time-barred even though it was filed more than two years after the date of the injury where the employer had told the employee he did not have workers' compensation insurance, the employer had actual notice of the injury on the date of the injury, and the employer's own testimony showed that he failed to post notice that he had subsequently obtained workers' compensation insurance or notify the employee of the same after the injury.

Thomas A. Robinson, J.D., the Feature National Columnist for the LexisNexis Workers’ Compensation eNewsletter, is the co-author of Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law (LexisNexis).

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See Graves v. Hopper, 2018 Ark. App. 193, 2018 Ark. App. LEXIS 183 (Mar. 7, 2018)

See generally Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law, § 126.03.

Source: Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law, the nation’s leading authority on workers’ compensation law