West Virginia Code
Article 4. Disability and Death Benefits
§23-4-21. Severability

West Virginia Code

Chapter 23. Workers' Compensation

Article 4. Disability and Death Benefits

§23-4-1. To Whom Compensation Fund Disbursed; Occupational Pneumoconiosis and Other Occupational Diseases Included in Injury and Personal Injury ; Definition of Occupational Pneumoconiosis and Other Occupational Diseases; Rebuttable Presumption for C...

§23-4-1a. Report of Injuries by Employee

§23-4-1b. Report of Injuries by Employers

§23-4-1c.§23-4-1c. Payment of Temporary Total Disability Benefits Directly to Claimant; Payment of Medical Benefits; Payments of Benefits During Protest; Right of Commission, Successor to the Commission, Private Carriers and Self-Insured Employers to...

§23-4-1d. Method and Time of Payments for Permanent Disability

§23-4-1e. Temporary Total Disability Benefits Not to Be Paid for Periods of Correctional Center or Jail Confinement; Denial of Workers' Compensation Benefits for Injuries or Disease Incurred While Confined

§23-4-1f. Certain Psychiatric Injuries and Diseases Not Compensable; Definitions; Legislative Findings; Terms; Report Required

§23-4-1g. Weighing of Evidence

§23-4-2. Disbursement Where Injury Is Self-Inflicted or Intentionally Caused by Employer; Legislative Declarations and Findings; &Quot;deliberate Intention" Defined

§23-4-3. Schedule of Maximum Disbursements for Medical, Surgical, Dental and Hospital Treatment; Legislative Approval; Guidelines; Preferred Provider Agreements; Charges in Excess of Scheduled Amounts Not to Be Made; Required Disclosure of Financial...

§23-4-3b. Creation of Health Care Advisory Panel

§23-4-3c. Suspension or Termination of Providers of Health Care

§23-4-4. Funeral Expenses; Wrongfully Seeking Payment; Criminal Penalties

§23-4-5. Benefits for First Three Days After Injury

§23-4-6. Classification of and Criteria for Disability Benefits

§23-4-6a. Benefits and Mode of Payment to Employees and Dependents for Occupational Pneumoconiosis; Further Adjustment of Claim for Occupational Pneumoconiosis

§23-4-6b. Occupational Hearing Loss Claims

§23-4-6c. Benefits Payable to Certain Sheltered Workshop Employees; Limitations

§23-4-6d. Benefits Payable to Part-Time Employees

§23-4-7. Release of Medical Information to Employer; Legislative Findings; Effect of Application for Benefits; Duty of Employer

§23-4-7a. Monitoring of Injury Claims; Legislative Findings; Review of Medical Evidence; Recommendation of Authorized Treating Physician; Independent Medical Evaluations; Temporary Total Disability Benefits and the Termination Thereof; Mandatory Acti...

§23-4-7b. Trial Return to Work; Insurance Commissioner to Develop Rules

§23-4-8. Physical Examination of Claimant

§23-4-8a. Occupational Pneumoconiosis Board; Composition; Term of Office; Duties; Quorum; Remuneration

§23-4-8b. Occupational Pneumoconiosis Board; Procedure; Autopsy

§23-4-8c. Occupational Pneumoconiosis Board; Reports and Distribution Thereof; Presumption; Findings Required of Board; Objection to Findings; Procedure Thereon; Limitations on Refilings; Consolidation of Claims

§23-4-8d. Occupational Pneumoconiosis Claims Never Closed for Medical Benefits With Exception of Settled Claims

§23-4-9. Physical and Vocational Rehabilitation

§23-4-9b. Preexisting Impairments Not Considered in Fixing Amount of Compensation

§23-4-10. Classification of Death Benefits; "dependent" Defined

§23-4-11. To Whom Death Benefits Paid

§23-4-12. Application of Benefits

§23-4-13. Effect of Abandonment of Spouse

§23-4-14. Computation of Benefits

§23-4-15. Application for Benefits

§23-4-15a. Nonresident Alien Beneficiaries

§23-4-15b. Determination of Nonmedical Questions; Claims for Occupational Pneumoconiosis; Hearing

§23-4-16. Jurisdiction Over Case Continuous; Modification of Finding or Order; Time Limitation on Awards; Reimbursement of Claimant for Expenses; Reopening Cases Involving Permanent Total Disability; Promulgation of Rules

§23-4-16a. Interest on Benefits

§23-4-17. Commutation of Periodical Benefits

§23-4-18. Mode of Paying Benefits Generally; Exemptions of Compensation From Legal Process

§23-4-20. Postmortem Examinations

§23-4-21. Severability

§23-4-22. Permanent Disability Evaluations; Limitations; Notice

§23-4-23. Permanent Total Disability Benefits; Reduction of Disability Benefits; Reduction of Benefits; Application of Section; Severability

§23-4-24. Permanent Total Disability Awards; Retirement Age; Limitations on Eligibility and the Introduction of Evidence; Effects of Other Types of Awards; Procedures; Requests for Awards; Jurisdiction

§23-4-25. Permanent Total Disability Benefits; Reduction of Disability Benefits for Wages Earned by Claimant