Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 51.32 - Compensation—Right to and Amount.
51.32.350 - Chemically related illness—Criteria and procedures for claims—Claims management.

RCW 51.32.350
Chemically related illness—Criteria and procedures for claims—Claims management.

(1) By July 1, 1994, the department shall establish interim criteria and procedures for management of claims involving chemically related illness to ensure consistency and fairness in the adjudication of these claims. The criteria and procedures shall apply to employees covered by the state fund and employees of self-insured employers. The department shall adopt final criteria and procedures by December 31, 1994, and report the criteria and procedures as required under section 5, chapter 265, Laws of 1994.
(2) The special procedures developed by the department shall include procedures to determine which claims involving chemically related illness require expert management. The department shall assign claims managers with special training or expertise to manage these claims.

[ 1994 c 265 § 1.]

Structure Revised Code of Washington

Revised Code of Washington

Title 51 - Industrial Insurance

Chapter 51.32 - Compensation—Right to and Amount.

51.32.010 - Who entitled to compensation.

51.32.015 - Time and place of coverage—Lunch period.

51.32.020 - Who not entitled to compensation.

51.32.025 - Payments for children cease at age eighteen—Exceptions.

51.32.030 - When compensation payable to employer or member of corporate employer.

51.32.040 - Protection of awards—Payment after death—Time limitations for filing—Confinement in institution.

51.32.045 - Direct deposit or electronic payment of benefits.

51.32.050 - Death benefits.

51.32.055 - Determination of permanent disabilities—Closure of claims by self-insurers.

51.32.060 - Permanent total disability compensation—Personal attendant.

51.32.067 - Permanent total disability—Death benefit options—Election.

51.32.072 - Additional payments for prior pensioners—Children—Remarriage—Attendant.

51.32.073 - Additional payments for prior pensioners—Premium liability of worker and employer for additional payments.

51.32.075 - Adjustments in compensation or death benefits.

51.32.080 - Permanent partial disability—Specified—Unspecified, rules for classification—Injury after permanent partial disability.

51.32.090 - Temporary total disability—Partial restoration of earning power—Return to available work—When employer continues wages—Limitations—Finding—Rules.

51.32.095 - Vocational rehabilitation services—Benefits—Priorities—Allowable costs—Performance criteria.

51.32.096 - Vocational rehabilitation benefits and options—Advisory committee—Procedures—Requirements—Definitions—Costs.

51.32.098 - Vocational rehabilitation services—Applicability.

51.32.099 - Vocational rehabilitation pilot program—Vocational plans.

51.32.100 - Preexisting disease.

51.32.110 - Medical examination—Refusal to submit—Traveling expenses—Pay for time lost.

51.32.112 - Medical examination—Standards and criteria—Special examinations by chiropractors—Compensation guidelines and reporting criteria.

51.32.114 - Medical examination—Department to monitor quality and objectivity.

51.32.120 - Further accident after lump sum payment.

51.32.130 - Lump sum for death or permanent total disability.

51.32.135 - Closing of claim in pension cases—Consent of spouse.

51.32.140 - Nonresident alien beneficiary.

51.32.150 - Lump sum to beneficiary outside state.

51.32.160 - Aggravation, diminution, or termination.

51.32.180 - Occupational diseases—Limitation.

51.32.181 - Occupational diseases—Public health emergencies—Infectious or contagious diseases.

51.32.185 - Occupational diseases—Presumption of occupational disease for firefighters and fire investigators—Limitations—Exception—Rules—Advisory committee on occupational disease presumptions.

51.32.187 - Exposed workers—Prima facie presumption of certain occupational diseases—Rebuttal—Definitions.

51.32.1871 - Annual report on claims.

51.32.190 - Self-insurers—Notice of denial of claim, reasons—Procedure—Powers and duties of director.

51.32.195 - Self-insurers—Information to department.

51.32.200 - Self-insurers—Enforcement of compensation order against.

51.32.210 - Claims of injured workers, prompt action—Payment—Acceptance—Effect.

51.32.215 - Payment of compensation after appeal—Enforcement of order—Penalty.

51.32.220 - Reduction in total disability compensation—Limitations—Notice—Waiver—Adjustment for retroactive reduction in federal social security disability benefit—Restrictions.

51.32.225 - Reduction in total disability compensation—Offset for social security retirement benefits.

51.32.230 - Recovery of overpayments.

51.32.240 - Erroneous payments—Payments induced by willful misrepresentation—Adjustment for self-insurer's failure to pay benefits—Recoupment of overpayments by self-insurer—Penalty—Appeal—Enforcement of orders.

51.32.242 - Self-insured employer overpayment reimbursement fund—Withholding from worker earnings—Use of funds—Exception.

51.32.250 - Payment of job modification costs.

51.32.260 - Compensation for loss or damage to personal effects.

51.32.300 - State employee vocational rehabilitation coordinator.

51.32.350 - Chemically related illness—Criteria and procedures for claims—Claims management.

51.32.360 - Chemically related illness—Centers for research and clinical assessment.

51.32.370 - Chemically related illness—Research projects—Implementation plan—Funding—Deductions from employees' pay.

51.32.380 - Injured offenders—Benefits sent in the care of the department of corrections—Exception—Liability.

51.32.390 - Health care employees—Presumption of occupational disease for infectious or contagious diseases which are the subject of a public health emergency—Rebuttal—Limitations—Costs.