NRS 617.390 – Compensation for both injury and disease.
1. Compensation may be awarded for both injury and disease. 2. If an employee claims to be suffering from both an occupational disease and an injury, the insurer shall determine whether the disease or the injury or both, are related to the disability and shall order payment of compensation from the proper funds. 3. Compensation […]
NRS 617.392 – Compensation for combination of injuries, illnesses and disabilities.
A person described in this chapter may be determined to be totally disabled and eligible to receive compensation for disability as a result of a combination of injuries, illnesses and disabilities arising out of and in the course of his or her employment. (Added to NRS by 1981, 850)
NRS 617.395 – Compensation for mastectomy and reconstructive surgery.
1. If compensation is paid to an employee under this chapter for the surgical procedure known as a mastectomy, the employee is also entitled to receive commensurate compensation for at least two prosthetic devices and for reconstructive surgery incident to the mastectomy. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, this compensation is subject to the […]
NRS 617.358 – Compensation prohibited unless preponderance of evidence establishes that disease arose out of and in course of employment; rebuttable presumption if notice of disease is filed after termination of employment; exceptions.
1. An employee or the dependents of the employee are not entitled to receive compensation pursuant to the provisions of this chapter unless the employee or the dependents of the employee establish by a preponderance of the evidence that the employee’s occupational disease arose out of and in the course of his or her employment. […]
NRS 617.362 – Payment of compensation by insurer prohibited before required; recovery of overpayment by insurer.
1. An insurer shall not provide compensation to or for an employee or the dependents of the employee before the compensation is required to be paid pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. 2. If, within 30 days after a payment is made to an injured employee pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, the […]