Article 4. Disability and Death Benefits

Article 4. Disability and Death Benefits

§23-4-1. To Whom Compensation Fund Disbursed; Occupational Pneumoconiosis and Other Occupational Diseases Included in “injury” and &Ldquo;personal Injury”; Definition of Occupational Pneumoconiosis and Other Occupational Diseases; Rebuttable Presumption for Cardiovascular Injury and Disease or Pulmonary Disease for Firefighters
§23-4-1a. Report of Injuries by Employee
§23-4-1b. Report of Injuries by Employers
§23-4-1c. &Sect;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 Collect Payments Improperly Made
§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
§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 Interest in Sale or Rental of Medically Related Mechanical Appliances or Devices; Promulgation of Rules to Enforce Requirement; Consequences of Failure to Disclose; Contract by Employer With Hospital, Physician, etc., Prohibited; Criminal Penalties for Violation; Payments to Certain Providers Prohibited; Medical Cost and Care Program; Payments; Interlocutory Orders
§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 Action; Additional Authority; Suspension of Benefits
§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

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