4916 An injured worker who files a personal injury claim against a defendant prior to 2003 is subject to the then-existing one year statute of limitations; the worker cannot claim equitable tolling of the statute on the basis of an earlier filed workers compensation claim when the defendant was not named as a party in that proceeding before the one year statutory period had run.CitationAGUILERA v HEIMAN (WC Joinder) 174 CA4 590 [See CCP (fmr)340, 335.1; LabC 3706; Elkins v. Derby 12 C3 410; Krupnick v Duke 115 CA4 1026, T/AT 3/04; Andonagui v May 128 CA4 435, T/AT 5/05; McDonald v Antelope Vly 45 C4 88, T/AT 12/08; Valdez v Himmelfarb 144 CA4 1261, T/AT 12/06]
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