BRB - Payment of Section 7 Medical is Not Payment of Compensation

http://www.dol.gov/brb/decisions/lngshore/published/09-0570.pdf

In Wheeler v. Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., 43 BRBS ____, BRB No. 09-0570, Jan. 26, 2010 the Board held that an employer's direct payments medical providers does not toll the Section 22 one-year time limit, as payment for Section 7 medicals is not a payment of "compensation."

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