§ 71-3-129. Child and spousal support liens placed upon workers’ compensation
The Mississippi Department of Human Services, Division of Child Support Enforcement (the department) or the obligee may cause a lien for unpaid and delinquent child or spousal support to be placed upon any workers’ compensation benefits payable to an obligor delinquent in child support or spousal support payments where a minor child is living with […]
§ 71-3-123. Report of commissioner on assigned risk plan and safety programs
The Commissioner of Insurance shall submit a report consisting of the condition of the assigned risk plan and the safety programs established by insurers in accordance with Chapter 577, Laws of 1992 to the Senate and House Insurance Committees by January 1 of each year, beginning January 1, 1993.
§ 71-3-125. Workers’ compensation claims offices; provision of same services by contract; waiver
Each insurance carrier or commission approved self-insured employer shall maintain a workers’ compensation claims office, subject to the waiver provisions herein, within the borders of the State of Mississippi beginning July 1, 1993. Alternatively, each insurance carrier or commission approved self-insured employer may provide by contract the same services within the borders of the State […]
§ 71-3-127. Use of arbitrators to resolve disputes
The Workers’ Compensation Commission may utilize one or more arbitrators to resolve disputes under such procedures as prescribed by the commission in its uniform procedure rules.
§ 71-3-101. Registration of insurance companies
Each insurance company and all other carriers which desire to write workmen’s compensation insurance in compliance with this chapter shall be required, before writing such insurance, to register with the workmen’s compensation commission and pay a registration fee of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00). This shall be deposited by the commission in the administration expense fund.
§ 71-3-103. Annual report
The commission shall each calendar year make a report to the governor upon the operation of this chapter, including suggestions and recommendations as to improvements in the law and administration, a detailed statement of receipts and disbursements, and an exposition of industrial injury experience and compensation and medical cost.
§ 71-3-105. Rehabilitation
The commission shall cooperate with federal, state, and local agencies in the rehabilitation of handicapped workers, and shall promptly report to the proper authority industrial injury cases in which retraining or job placement may be needed.
§ 71-3-107. Compensation and death benefits for minors illegally employed
Compensation and death benefits shall be double the amount otherwise payable if the injured employee at the time of the injury is a minor under eighteen (18) years of age employed, permitted, or suffered to work in violation of any provision of the Mississippi labor laws. The employer alone and not the insurance carrier shall […]
§ 71-3-109. Extraterritorial application
If an employee who has been hired or is regularly employed in this state receives personal injury by accident arising out of and in the course of his employment while temporarily employed outside of this state, he or his dependents in case of his death shall be entitled to compensation according to the law of […]
§ 71-3-111. Mississippi Workers’ Compensation Assigned Risk Plan; commissioner’s duties and responsibilities; temporary joint underwriting association
The Department of Insurance is directed to promulgate such rules and regulations as will enable the department to provide the “Mississippi Workers’ Compensation Assigned Risk Plan” for the assignment of risks which in good faith are entitled to insurance under this chapter but which, because of unusual conditions and circumstances, are unable to obtain such […]