Chatfield v. Whitehead

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• defining accident as “a definite happening or occurrence or event of which the employee is almost invariably aware,” as distinguished from an occupational disease, which “is latent and insidious and the resultant disability is often difficult to determine”
• defining accident as “a definite happening or occurrence or event of which the employee is almost invariably aware,” as distinguished from an occupational disease, which “is latent and insidious and the resultant disability is often difficult to determine”
• held: discovery rule applicable to disability claims brought under section 315 of Occupational Disease Act
• held: discovery rule applicable to disability claims brought under section 315 of Occupational Disease Act
• statute used phrase “after disability begins”
• statute used phrase \after disability begins\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).