2006 Kansas Code - 44-520a

      44-520a.   Claim for compensation; time limitation. (a) No proceedings for compensation shall be maintainable under the workmen's compensation act unless a written claim for compensation shall be served upon the employer by delivering such written claim to him or his duly authorized agent, or by delivering such written claim to him by registered or certified mail within two hundred (200) days after the date of the accident, or in cases where compensation payments have been suspended within two hundred (200) days after the date of the last payment of compensation; or within one (1) year after the death of the injured employee if death results from the injury within five (5) years after the date of such accident.

      (b)   Where recovery is denied to any person in a suit brought at law or in admiralty or under the federal employers' liability acts to recover damages in respect of bodily injury or death on the ground that such person was an employee and the defendant was an employer subject to and within the meaning of the workmen's compensation act, or when recovery is denied to any person in an action brought under the provisions of the workmen's compensation law of any other state or jurisdiction on the ground that such person was an employee under and subject to the provisions of the workmen's compensation act of this state, the limitation of time prescribed in subsection (a) of this section shall begin to run only from the date of termination or abandonment of such suit or compensation proceeding, when such suit or compensation proceeding is filed within two hundred (200) days after the date of the injury or death complained of.

      History:   L. 1927, ch. 232, § 20; L. 1939, ch. 213, § 3; L. 1947, ch. 289, § 1; L. 1955, ch. 250, § 13; L. 1957, ch. 293, § 4; L. 1967, ch. 280, § 7; L. 1974, ch. 203, § 26; July 1.