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§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... - (a) Subject to the provisions and limitations elsewhere in this...
§23-4-1a. Report of Injuries by Employee - Every employee who sustains an injury subject to this chapter,...
§23-4-1b. Report of Injuries by Employers - It is the duty of every employer to report to...
§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... - (a) In any claim for benefits under this chapter, the...
§23-4-1d. Method and Time of Payments for Permanent Disability - (a) If the commission, successor to the commission, other private...
§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 - (a) Notwithstanding any provision of this code to the contrary,...
§23-4-1f. Certain Psychiatric Injuries and Diseases Not Compensable; Definitions; Legislative Findings; Terms; Report Required - (a) Except as provided by this section, for the purposes...
§23-4-1g. Weighing of Evidence - (a) For all awards made on or after the effective...
§23-4-2. Disbursement Where Injury Is Self-Inflicted or Intentionally Caused by Employer; Legislative Declarations and Findings; &Quot;deliberate Intention" Defined - (a) Notwithstanding anything contained in this chapter, no employee or...
§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... - (a) The Workers' Compensation Commission, and effective upon termination of...
§23-4-3b. Creation of Health Care Advisory Panel - (a) The commission shall establish a health care advisory panel...
§23-4-3c. Suspension or Termination of Providers of Health Care - (a) The commission may suspend for up to three years...
§23-4-4. Funeral Expenses; Wrongfully Seeking Payment; Criminal Penalties - (a) In case the personal injury causes death, reasonable funeral...
§23-4-5. Benefits for First Three Days After Injury - If the period of disability does not last longer than...
§23-4-6. Classification of and Criteria for Disability Benefits - Where compensation is due an employee under the provisions of...
§23-4-6a. Benefits and Mode of Payment to Employees and Dependents for Occupational Pneumoconiosis; Further Adjustment of Claim for Occupational Pneumoconiosis - If an employee is found to be permanently disabled due...
§23-4-6b. Occupational Hearing Loss Claims - (a) In all claims for occupational hearing loss caused by...
§23-4-6c. Benefits Payable to Certain Sheltered Workshop Employees; Limitations - Notwithstanding the provisions of section six, six-a or six-b of...
§23-4-6d. Benefits Payable to Part-Time Employees - (a) For purposes of this section, a part-time employee means...
§23-4-7. Release of Medical Information to Employer; Legislative Findings; Effect of Application for Benefits; Duty of Employer - (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that two of...
§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... - (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that injured claimants...
§23-4-7b. Trial Return to Work; Insurance Commissioner to Develop Rules - (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that it is...
§23-4-8. Physical Examination of Claimant - (a) The Insurance Commissioner, private carrier or self-insured employer, whichever...
§23-4-8a. Occupational Pneumoconiosis Board; Composition; Term of Office; Duties; Quorum; Remuneration - The Occupational Pneumoconiosis Board shall consist of five licensed physicians...
§23-4-8b. Occupational Pneumoconiosis Board; Procedure; Autopsy - The Occupational Pneumoconiosis Board, upon reference to it by an...
§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 - (a) The Occupational Pneumoconiosis Board, as soon as practicable, after...
§23-4-8d. Occupational Pneumoconiosis Claims Never Closed for Medical Benefits With Exception of Settled Claims - Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision (4), subsection (a), section sixteen...
§23-4-9. Physical and Vocational Rehabilitation - (a) The Legislature hereby finds that it is a goal...
§23-4-9b. Preexisting Impairments Not Considered in Fixing Amount of Compensation - Where an employee has a definitely ascertainable impairment resulting from...
§23-4-10. Classification of Death Benefits; "dependent" Defined - In case a personal injury, other than occupational pneumoconiosis or...
§23-4-11. To Whom Death Benefits Paid - The benefits, in case of death, shall be paid to...
§23-4-12. Application of Benefits - The dependent or person to whom benefits are paid shall...
§23-4-13. Effect of Abandonment of Spouse - Notwithstanding anything herein contained, no sum will be paid to...
§23-4-14. Computation of Benefits - (a) The average weekly wage earnings, wherever earned, of the...
§23-4-15. Application for Benefits - (a) To entitle any employee or dependent of a deceased...
§23-4-15a. Nonresident Alien Beneficiaries - Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, nonresident alien beneficiaries...
§23-4-15b. Determination of Nonmedical Questions; Claims for Occupational Pneumoconiosis; Hearing - If a claim for occupational pneumoconiosis benefits is filed by...
§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 - (a) The power and jurisdiction of the commission, successor to...
§23-4-16a. Interest on Benefits - Whenever any award of temporary total, permanent partial or permanent...
§23-4-17. Commutation of Periodical Benefits - The commission, successor to the commission, other private carrier or...
§23-4-18. Mode of Paying Benefits Generally; Exemptions of Compensation From Legal Process - Except as provided by this section, compensation shall be paid...
§23-4-20. Postmortem Examinations - The commission, successor to the commission, other private carrier or...
§23-4-21. Severability - If any provision of this article or the application thereof...
§23-4-22. Permanent Disability Evaluations; Limitations; Notice - Notwithstanding any provision in this chapter to the contrary, any...
§23-4-23. Permanent Total Disability Benefits; Reduction of Disability Benefits; Reduction of Benefits; Application of Section; Severability - (a) This section is applicable whenever benefits are being paid...
§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 - (a) Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter to the contrary,...
§23-4-25. Permanent Total Disability Benefits; Reduction of Disability Benefits for Wages Earned by Claimant - (a) After April 8, one thousand nine hundred ninety-three, a...