(a) An employee who sustains a permanent compensable injury scheduled in this section shall receive, in addition to compensation for temporary total and temporary partial benefits during the healing period or until the employee returns to work, whichever occurs first, weekly benefits in the amount of the permanent partial disability rate attributable to the injury, […]
(a) A permanent partial disability not scheduled in § 11-9-521 shall be apportioned to the body as a whole, which shall have a value of four hundred fifty (450) weeks, and there shall be paid compensation to the injured employee for the proportionate loss of use of the body as a whole resulting from the […]
(a) In all cases of claims for hernia, it shall be shown to the satisfaction of the Workers’ Compensation Commission: (1) That the occurrence of the hernia immediately followed as the result of sudden effort, severe strain, or the application of force directly to the abdominal wall; (2) That there was severe pain in the […]
(a) The Workers’ Compensation Commission shall award compensation for serious and permanent facial or head disfigurement in a sum not to exceed three thousand five hundred dollars ($3,500). (b) No award for disfigurement shall be entered until twelve (12) months after the injury.
(a) (1) The Second Injury Trust Fund established in this chapter is a special fund designed to ensure that an employer employing a worker with a disability will not, in the event that the worker suffers an injury on the job, be held liable for a greater disability or impairment than actually occurred while the […]
If any injured employee refuses employment suitable to his or her capacity offered to or procured for him or her, he or she shall not be entitled to any compensation during the continuance of the refusal, unless in the opinion of the Workers’ Compensation Commission, the refusal is justifiable.
(a) Funeral Expenses. If death results from an injury occurring on or after July 1, 1993, the employer shall pay the actual funeral expenses, not exceeding the sum of six thousand dollars ($6,000). (b) Time of Death. If death does not result within one (1) year from the date of the accident or within the […]
(a) Every employer shall keep a record with respect to any injury to an employee. (b) The record shall contain such information of disability or death with respect to the injury as the Workers’ Compensation Commission may by rule require. (c) The record shall be available for inspection by the commission or by any state […]
(a) Within ten (10) days after the date of receipt of notice or of knowledge of injury or death, the employer shall send to the Workers’ Compensation Commission a report setting forth: (1) The name, address, and business of the employer; (2) The name, address, and occupation of the employee; (3) The cause and nature […]
Implementation of Workers’ Compensation Commission Rule 33 regarding managed care shall be voluntary for all employers.
