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South Carolina: Timely Notice is Subject to Substantial Evidence Standard, Not De Novo Review

April 06, 2018 (1 min read)

The question of timely notice to the employer was not a jurisdictional question subject to de novo review, held the Supreme Court of South Carolina. Accordingly, where the Court of Appeals employed the de novo standard, instead of the substantial evidence standard to review a decision by the appellate panel that found the employee failed to provide timely notice of the injury, it committed error. The matter was remanded for a decision under the proper standard of review.

Thomas A. Robinson, J.D., the Feature National Columnist for the LexisNexis Workers’ Compensation eNewsletter, is the co-author of Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law (LexisNexis).

LexisNexis Online Subscribers: Citations below link to Lexis Advance.

See Nero v. South Carolina Dept. of Transp., 2018 S.C. LEXIS 35 (Apr. 4, 2018)

See generally Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law, § 130.01.

Source: Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law, the nation’s leading authority on workers’ compensation law



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