§ 11-9-701. Notice of injury or death
(a) (1) Unless an injury either renders the employee physically or mentally unable to do so, or is made known to the employer immediately after it occurs, the employee shall report the injury to the employer on a form prescribed or approved by the Workers’ Compensation Commission and to a person or at a place […]
§ 11-9-702. Filing of claims
(a) Time for Filing. (1) A claim for compensation for disability on account of an injury, other than an occupational disease and occupational infection, shall be barred unless filed with the Workers’ Compensation Commission within two (2) years from the date of the compensable injury. If during the two-year period following the filing of the […]
§ 11-9-703. Preliminary conference procedure
The Workers’ Compensation Commission is authorized and directed to promulgate appropriate rules to establish and implement, for claims with respect to injuries occurring on or after January 1, 1987, a preliminary conference procedure designed to accomplish the following objectives: (1) To provide the claimant an opportunity to confer with a legal advisor on the staff […]
§ 11-9-704. Proceedings on claims
(a) Notice. Within ten (10) days after a claim for compensation has been filed, the Workers’ Compensation Commission shall notify the employer and any other interested person of the filing of the claim. (b) Investigation — Hearing. (1) The commission shall make or cause to be made such investigation as it considers necessary in respect […]
§ 11-9-506. Limitations on compensation — Recipients of unemployment benefits
(a) Any other provisions of this chapter to the contrary notwithstanding, no compensation in any amount for temporary total, temporary partial, or permanent total disability shall be payable to an injured employee with respect to any week for which the injured employee receives unemployment insurance benefits under the Division of Workforce Services Law, § 11-10-101 […]
§ 11-9-507. Special project to improve safety
(a) For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1987, the Workers’ Compensation Commission shall allocate one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to a special project for the following purposes: (1) Identification of industries or jobs having a high incidence of injuries; (2) Determination of the causes of injuries of which there is a high incidence; and […]
§ 11-9-508. Medical services and supplies — Liability of employer — Definition
(a) (1) The employer shall promptly provide for an injured employee such medical, surgical, hospital, chiropractic, optometric, podiatric, and nursing services and medicine, crutches, ambulatory devices, artificial limbs, eyeglasses, contact lenses, hearing aids, and other apparatus as may be reasonably necessary in connection with the injury received by the employee. (2) (A) Rabies is a […]
§ 11-9-509. Medical services and supplies — Amounts and time periods
The amounts payable or time periods allowable for authorized medical, hospital, and other services and treatment furnished under §§ 11-9-508 — 11-9-516, unless waived by the employer-respondent or approved by the Workers’ Compensation Commission and warranted by the preponderance of the evidence on the basis of the record as a whole, are: (1) Six (6) […]
§ 11-9-510. Medical services and supplies — Contest of liability
The employer shall not be liable for any of the payments provided for in §§ 11-9-508 — 11-9-516 in the case of a contest of liability where the Workers’ Compensation Commission shall decide that the injury does not come within the provisions of this chapter.
§ 11-9-511. Medical services and supplies — Physical examination
(a) An injured employee claiming to be entitled to compensation shall submit to such physical examination and treatment by another qualified physician, designated or approved by the Workers’ Compensation Commission, as the commission may require from time to time if reasonable and necessary. (b) The places of examination and treatment shall be reasonably convenient for […]