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Your situation, stage by stage

WHERE YOU ARE

Pick the situation that is yours and put in each date once, on the stage it belongs to. The page shows the stage you are at and the period the statutes set after it, with whose period it is and the section it comes from. It says what the law sets, never what to do about it.

All of it runs in this browser. The dates are the same ones Your clock and your case file hold, and nothing you type is sent anywhere. What this site records.

Which situation is yours

The year to file the claim, and the appeal after the department's order.

  1. Stage 1 · What the statutes set next

    Filing a workers' compensation claim

    Period
    1 year
    From
    The day of the injury
    Whose
    The worker

    No claim is valid unless filed within one year after the day of the injury, except as the sections the statute names provide.

  2. Stage 2 · Later in the statutes

    Appealing a Department of Labor and Industries order

    Period
    60 days
    From
    The day the order was communicated
    Whose
    The worker, employer or other person aggrieved

    A notice of appeal from a department order, decision or award is filed with the board and the director within sixty days.

Around these dates

What the law asks of each side between them, a step at a time: The Ladder Fall

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