When any truck driver who has availed himself of the worker’s insurance policy suffers an injury or work related disease, he/she shall file the claim for his case in the term provided by law, using the form provided by the State Insurance Fund Corporation. In it shall be included the detailed circumstances of how the alleged accident or occupational disease occurred, the date, time and place as well as the name and address of witnesses, if any. The presentation of said report shall be required in order to receive the medical-hospital services as well as the other benefits granted in this chapter, with the exception of emergency treatment.
History —Apr. 18, 1935, No. 45, p. 250, added as § 2B on Sept. 8, 2004, No. 263, § 1.