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Dockery, Gerald

GERALD DOCKERY, Applicant vs. SUBSEQUENT INJURIES BENEFITS TRUST FUND, Defendants

ADJ number
ADJ8302918
Decision date
Date unavailable
District office
Van Nuys
WCJ
Troy Slaten
Claim administrator
—
Commissioners
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Injury / body parts: head, spine, bilateral upper extremities, bilateral lower extremities, internal organs, psyche

LC §5405LC §5410LC §4660LC §5002CCR §10700

Summary

Applicant Gerald Dockery, a former professional football player, sustained a cumulative trauma industrial injury ending March 9, 2001 while playing for the Houston Thunderbears, with numerous prior injuries. He settled his underlying claim by Compromise and Release for $75,000 on October 8, 2013, and filed his first SIBTF claim on September 2, 2020. The WCJ found the SIBTF claim was not time-barred, applying the second prong of the Talcott test, and SIBTF petitioned for reconsideration arguing the claim was untimely. The WCAB denied reconsideration, holding there is no statute of limitations for SIBTF claims and that the Talcott test governs timeliness. The Board agreed that an Order Approving Compromise and Release is not a WCAB finding on permanent disability, so the reasonable-time period to file had not yet been triggered, and applicant filed within a reasonable time after learning of SIBTF's probable liability in 2020.

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