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The proper “filing” of a claim pursuant to Code of Maryland Regulations 14.09.02.02A is not accomplished by the electronic submission of a claim form, held the Court of Appeals of Maryland. Accordingly, where the claim was electronically submitted before expiration of the two-year statute of limitations, but not actually signed and filed in paper form until after the expiration of the limitations period, the claim was barred as untimely.
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 Hranicka v. Chesapeake Surgical, Ltd., 2015 Md. LEXIS 413 (June 18, 2015) [2015 Md. LEXIS 413 (June 18, 2015)]
See generally Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law, § 124.05 [124.05]
Source: Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law, the nation’s leading authority on workers’ compensation law.
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