(a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that it is in the interest of employees and employers that injured employees be encouraged to return to work as quickly as possible after an injury and that appropriate protections be afforded to injured employees who return to work on a trial basis.
(b) The Insurance Commissioner shall propose rules, as provided in section five, article two-c of this chapter, establishing criteria for providing employers the option of allowing employees, following an injury, to return to work on a trial basis and for the suspension of temporary total benefits during a period of trial return to work.
Structure West Virginia Code
Chapter 23. Workers' Compensation
Article 4. Disability and Death Benefits
§23-4-1a. Report of Injuries by Employee
§23-4-1b. Report of Injuries by Employers
§23-4-1d. Method and Time of Payments for Permanent Disability
§23-4-1g. Weighing of Evidence
§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
§23-4-6b. Occupational Hearing Loss Claims
§23-4-6c. Benefits Payable to Certain Sheltered Workshop Employees; Limitations
§23-4-6d. Benefits Payable to Part-Time Employees
§23-4-7b. Trial Return to Work; Insurance Commissioner to Develop Rules
§23-4-8. Physical Examination of Claimant
§23-4-8b. Occupational Pneumoconiosis Board; Procedure; Autopsy
§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
§23-4-16a. 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
§23-4-22. Permanent Disability Evaluations; Limitations; Notice