(a) Compensation shall be paid by check, by electronic funds transfer, or by state warrant. (b) Payment shall be made payable to the order of the person entitled to the compensation and paid directly to the person entitled to the compensation. (c) If the compensation beneficiary is a mental incompetent or a minor of tender […]
(a) The first installment of compensation shall become due on the fifteenth day after the employer has notice of the injury or death, as provided in § 11-9-701, on which date all compensation then accrued shall be paid. Thereafter, compensation shall be paid every two (2) weeks except where the Workers’ Compensation Commission directs that […]
(a) (1) Each employer desiring to controvert the right to compensation shall file with the Workers’ Compensation Commission on or before the fifteenth day following notice of the alleged injury or death a statement on a form prescribed by the commission that the right to compensation is controverted and the grounds therefor, the names of […]
(a) (1) Whenever the Workers’ Compensation Commission determines that it is for the best interest of the parties entitled to compensation, and after due notice to all parties in interest of a hearing, the liability of the employer for compensation may be discharged by the payment of a lump sum equal to the present value […]
(a) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (a)(2) of this section, upon petition filed by the employer or carrier and the injured employee requesting that a final settlement be had between the parties, the Workers’ Compensation Commission shall hear the petition and take testimony and make investigations as may be necessary to determine whether a […]
(a) In any case where an employer changes insurance carriers or where the employer having been self-insured, becomes insured or, having been insured, is approved to be self-insured, and the only dispute in a claim against that employer is the proper source of payment of benefits, the Workers’ Compensation Commission shall direct that the appropriate […]
(a) If the employer has made advance payments for compensation, the employer shall be entitled to be reimbursed out of any unpaid installment or installments of compensation due. (b) If the injured employee receives full wages during disability, he or she shall not be entitled to compensation during the period.
The Workers’ Compensation Commission may require any employer to make a deposit or bond with the commission to secure the prompt and convenient payment of compensation, and payments shall be made upon order of the commission.
Compensation shall bear interest at the legal rate from the day an award is made by either an administrative law judge or the full Workers’ Compensation Commission on all accrued and unpaid compensation.
(a) Upon making the first payment and upon suspension of payment of compensation, the employer shall notify the Workers’ Compensation Commission of that fact on a form prescribed by the commission. (b) (1) Within thirty (30) days after the final payment of compensation has been made, the employer shall send to the commission a notice, […]
Upon its own initiative at any time where compensation payments are being made without an award, the Workers’ Compensation Commission may and in any case where the right to compensation has been controverted or where payments of compensation have been suspended, or where an employer seeks to suspend payments made under an award, or on […]
(a) (1) When any person who receives workers’ compensation benefits is incarcerated in an institution under the control of the Division of Correction, the inmate’s spouse or, if no spouse, the inmate’s minor dependent children, may petition the Workers’ Compensation Commission to award to the spouse or minor dependent children the inmate’s workers’ compensation weekly […]
(a) (1) Upon approval by the Insurance Commissioner, and following the adoption of such rules as the Insurance Commissioner deems necessary and advisable, each insurer issuing a policy under this chapter shall offer, as a part of the policy or as an optional endorsement to the policy, deductibles optional to the policyholder for benefits payable […]
