§386-51 Computation of average weekly wages. Average weekly wages shall be computed in a manner that the resulting amount represents most fairly, in the light of the employee’s employment pattern and the duration of the employee’s disability, the injured employee’s average weekly wages from all covered employment at the time of the personal injury. In […]
§386-51.5 Limited liability in concurrent employment. Where an employee is concurrently engaged in more than one employment covered by this chapter and sustains a personal injury in one employment under conditions specified in section 386-3, the liability of the employer shall be limited to the benefits as would be payable had the employee no other […]
§386-52 Credit for voluntary payments and supplies in kind. (a) Any payments made by the employer to the injured employee during the employee’s disability or to the employee’s dependents which by the terms of this chapter were not payable when made, shall be deducted from the amount payable as compensation subject to the approval of […]
§386-53 Nonweekly periodic payments. On the application of either party, the director may, having due regard for the welfare of the employee or the employee’s dependents and the convenience of the employee’s employer, authorize benefits to be paid fortnightly, semimonthly, monthly or quarterly instead of weekly. [L 1963, c 116, pt of §1; Supp, §97-52; […]
§386-54 Commutation of periodic payments. Upon application of the disabled employee, the employee’s dependents or the employer, the director of labor and industrial relations may order that the periodic benefit payments be commuted to one or more lump sum payments equal to the present value at the time when the lump sum payments are due […]
§386-55 Trustee in case of lump sum payments. Whenever for any reason the director of labor and industrial relations deems it advisable, any lump sum which is payable as provided in section 386-54 shall be paid to a suitable individual or corporation appointed by the circuit judge in whose jurisdiction the work injury occurred as […]
§386-56 Payment from the special compensation fund in case of default. Where an injured employee or the employee’s dependents fail to receive prompt and proper compensation and this default is caused through no fault of the employee, the director shall pay the full amount of all compensation awards and benefits from the special compensation fund […]
§386-57 Legal status of right to compensation and compensation payments. (a) The right to compensation under this chapter shall not be assignable, and the right to compensation and compensation payments received shall be exempt from the reach of creditors. (b) The right to compensation under this chapter shall have the same status as a lien […]
