CHAPTER 23. WORKERS' COMPENSATION.

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§23-4-1. To whom compensation fund disbursed; occupational pneumoconiosis and other occupational diseases included in "injury" and "personal injury"; definition of occupational pneumoconiosis and other occupational diseases; rebuttable presumption for cardiovascular injury and disease or pulmonary disease for firefighters.
§23-4-1a. Report of injuries by employee.
§23-4-1b. Report of injuries by employers.
§23-4-1c.§23-4-1c. Payment of temporary total disability benefits directly to claimant; payment of medical benefits; payments of benefits during protest; right of commission, successor to the commission, private carriers and self-insured employers to collect payments improperly made.
§23-4-1d. Method and time of payments for permanent disability.
§23-4-1e. Temporary total disability benefits not to be paid for periods of correctional center or jail confinement; denial of workers' compensation benefits for injuries or disease incurred while confined.
§23-4-1f. Certain psychiatric injuries and diseases not compensable; definitions; legislative findings; terms; report required.
§23-4-1g. Weighing of evidence.
§23-4-2. Disbursement where injury is self-inflicted or intentionally caused by employer; legislative declarations and findings; "deliberate intention" defined.
§23-4-2a. Limit on liability for noneconomic loss.
§23-4-3. Schedule of maximum disbursements for medical, surgical, dental and hospital treatment; legislative approval; guidelines; preferred provider agreements; charges in excess of scheduled amounts not to be made; required disclosure of financial interest in sale or rental of medically related mechanical appliances or devices; promulgation of rules to enforce requirement; consequences of failure to disclose; contract by employer with hospital, physician, etc., prohibited; criminal penalties for violation; payments to certain providers prohibited; medical cost and care program; payments; interlocutory orders.
§23-4-3a. Repealed. Acts, 1999 Reg. Sess., Ch. 294.
§23-4-3b. Creation of health care advisory panel.
§23-4-3c. Suspension or termination of providers of health care.
§23-4-4. Funeral expenses; wrongfully seeking payment; criminal penalties.
§23-4-5. Benefits for first three days after injury.
§23-4-6. Classification of and criteria for disability benefits.
§23-4-6a. Benefits and mode of payment to employees and dependents for occupational pneumoconiosis; further adjustment of claim for occupational pneumoconiosis.
§23-4-6b. Occupational hearing loss claims.
§23-4-6c. Benefits payable to certain sheltered workshop employees; limitations.
§23-4-6d. Benefits payable to part-time employees.
§23-4-7. Release of medical information to employer; legislative findings; effect of application for benefits; duty of employer.
§23-4-7a. Monitoring of injury claims; legislative findings; review of medical evidence; recommendation of authorized treating physician; independent medical evaluations; temporary total disability benefits and the termination thereof; mandatory action; additional authority; suspension of benefits.
§23-4-7b. Trial return to work; Insurance Commissioner to develop rules.
§23-4-8. Physical examination of claimant.
§23-4-8a. Occupational Pneumoconiosis Board; composition; term of office; duties; quorum; remuneration.
§23-4-8b. Occupational Pneumoconiosis Board; procedure; autopsy.
§23-4-8c. Occupational Pneumoconiosis Board; reports and distribution thereof; presumption; findings required of board; objection to findings; procedure thereon; limitations on refilings; consolidation of claims.
§23-4-8d. Occupational pneumoconiosis claims never closed for medical benefits with exception of settled claims.
§23-4-8e. Repealed. Acts, 1971 Reg. Sess., Ch. 177.
§23-4-8f. Repealed. Acts, 1971 Reg. Sess., Ch. 177.
§23-4-9. Physical and vocational rehabilitation.
§23-4-9a Repealed . Acts, 1947 Reg. Sess., Ch. 165.
§23-4-9b. Preexisting impairments not considered in fixing amount of compensation.
§23-4-10. Classification of death benefits; "dependent" defined.
§23-4-11. To whom death benefits paid.
§23-4-12. Application of benefits.
§23-4-13. Effect of abandonment of spouse.
§23-4-14. Computation of benefits.
§23-4-15. Application for benefits.
§23-4-15a. Nonresident alien beneficiaries.
§23-4-15b. Determination of nonmedical questions; claims for occupational pneumoconiosis; hearing.
§23-4-15c. Repealed. Acts, 1971 Reg. Sess., Ch. 177.
§23-4-16. Jurisdiction over case continuous; modification of finding or order; time limitation on awards; reimbursement of claimant for expenses; reopening cases involving permanent total disability; promulgation of rules.
§23-4-16a. Interest on benefits.
§23-4-17. Commutation of periodical benefits.
§23-4-18. Mode of paying benefits generally; exemptions of compensation from legal process.
§23-4-19. Repealed. Acts, 1999 Reg. Sess., Ch. 294.
§23-4-20. Postmortem examinations.
§23-4-21. Severability.
§23-4-22. Permanent disability evaluations; limitations; notice.
§23-4-23. Permanent total disability benefits; reduction of disability benefits; reduction of benefits; application of section; severability.
§23-4-24. Permanent total disability awards; retirement age; limitations on eligibility and the introduction of evidence; effects of other types of awards; procedures; requests for awards; jurisdiction.
§23-4-25. Permanent total disability benefits; reduction of disability benefits for wages earned by claimant.
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