§ 28-34-1. Definitions. Whenever used in this chapter: (1) “Disability” means the state of being disabled from earning full wages at the work at which the employee was last employed. (2) “Disablement” means the event of becoming disabled as defined in subsection (1) of this section. (3) “Occupational disease” means a disease that is due […]
§ 28-34-10. Information as to previous employers. The employee, or his or her dependents, if so requested, shall furnish the last employer or the director or the workers’ compensation court with any information as to the names and addresses of all his or her other employers during the twenty-four (24) months that he or she […]
§ 28-34-11. Rights as to diseases not covered by chapter. Nothing in this chapter shall affect the rights of an employee, or his or her dependents, to recover compensation in respect to a disease to which this chapter does not apply, if the disease, apart from this chapter, is one for which compensation is payable […]
§ 28-34-12. Diseases contracted before effective date of chapter. This chapter does not apply to cases of occupational disease in which the last injurious exposure to the hazards of the disease occurred prior to the fifteenth day of September 1936. History of Section.G.L. 1923, ch. 92, art. 8, § 12; P.L. 1936, ch. 2358, § […]
§ 28-34-2. Occupational diseases listed — Treatment as compensable injury. The disablement of any employee resulting from an occupational disease or condition described in the following schedule shall be treated as the happening of a personal injury, as defined in § 28-33-1, within the meaning of chapters 29 — 38 of this title, and the […]
§ 28-34-3. Benefits available to victims of disease. If an employee is disabled or dies and his disability or death is caused by one of the diseases mentioned in the schedule contained in § 28-34-2, and the disease is due to the nature of the employment in which that employee was engaged and was contracted […]
§ 28-34-4. Relationship of disease to employment — Time of bringing suit. Neither the employee nor his or her dependents shall be entitled to compensation for disability or death resulting from an occupational disease, unless that occupational disease is due to the nature of his or her employment and was contracted in that employment. The […]
§ 28-34-5. Examination and report by physician. The court may appoint one or more impartial physicians whose duty it shall be to examine any claimant under this chapter and to make a report in any form that the court may require. History of Section.G.L. 1923, ch. 92, art. 8, § 5; P.L. 1936, ch. 2358, […]
§ 28-34-6. Date of disablement. For the purpose of this chapter the date of disablement for an occupational disease shall be the date of partial or total incapacity to work as a result of the disease. History of Section.G.L. 1923, ch. 92, art. 8, § 6; P.L. 1936, ch. 2358, § 9; G.L. 1938, ch. […]
§ 28-34-7. Concealment of previous disease — Occupational disease as partial cause. No compensation shall be payable for an occupational disease if the employee, at the time of entering into the employment of the employer by whom the compensation would otherwise be payable, or thereafter, willfully and falsely represents in writing that he or she […]
§ 28-34-8. Apportionment of liability among successive employers. The total compensation due shall be recovered from the employer who or that last employed the employee in the employment to the nature of which the disease was due and in which it was contracted. If, however, the disease was contracted while the employee was in the […]
§ 28-34-9. Notice to employer of claim. The employer to whom notice of death or disability is to be given, or against whom claim is to be made by the employee, shall be the employer who or that last employed the employee during the thirty-six (36) months in the employment to the nature of which […]
