§ 37. Definitions. Whenever used in this article: 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 act of becoming so disabled as defined in subdivision one.
§ 38. Disablement treated as accident. The disablement of an employee resulting from an occupational disease described in subdivision two of section three shall be treated as the happening of an accident within the meaning of this chapter and the procedure and practice provided in this chapter shall apply to all proceedings under this article, […]
§ 39. Right to compensation. If an employee is disabled or dies and his disability or death is caused by one of the diseases mentioned in subdivision two of section three, and the disease is due to the nature of the corresponding employment as described in such subdivision in which such employee was engaged and […]
§ 41. Examining physicians. The chairman shall appoint one or more physicians whose duty it shall be to examine any claimant under this article and to make a report in such form as the chairman may require.
§ 42. Date of disablement. For the purposes of this article the date of disablement shall be such date as the board may determine on the hearing on the claim.
§ 44. Liability of employer. The total compensation due shall be recoverable from the employer who last employed the employee in the employment to the nature of which the disease was due and in which it was contracted. If, however, such disease, except silicosis or other dust disease and compressed air illness or its sequelae, […]
§ 44-a. Liability of employer; silicosis or other dust diseases. The employer in whose employment an employee was last exposed to an injurious dust hazard shall be liable for the payments required by this chapter when disability or death of the employee shall be due to silicosis or other dust disease.
§ 44-b. Liability of employer; compressed air illness. With respect to claims filed after July first, nineteen hundred sixty-one, for compensation on account of disability or death resulting from compressed air illness or its sequelae, the employer who is made liable for the total compensation as provided by section forty-four of this article, shall not […]
§ 45. Notice to employers. 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 last employed the employee in the employment to the nature of which the disease was due and such notice and claim […]
§ 46. Information; penalty. The employee or his dependents, if so requested, shall furnish the last employer or the board with such information as to the names and addresses of all his other employers during the said twelve months, as he or they may possess; and if such information is not furnished, or is not […]
§ 47. Presumption as to the cause of disease. If the employee, at or immediately before the date of disablement, was employed in any process mentioned in the second column of the schedule of diseases in subdivision two of section three of this chapter, and his or her disease is the disease in the first […]
§ 48. Diseases which are accidents. Nothing in this article shall affect the rights of an employee to recover compensation in respect to a disease to which this article does not apply if the disease is an accidental personal injury within the meaning of subdivision seven of section two of this chapter.
