P.R. Laws tit. 11, § 2b
Whenever a person covered by the provisions of § 2a of this title may sustain an injury while at work, he shall make an affidavit setting forth in detail the circumstances surrounding his alleged accident, as well as the name of the eyewitnesses thereof. If the injury is of such a nature as not to permit the employer to make the said affidavit immediately, the same shall be made by any of his workers who witnessed the accident or, in default thereof, by a near relative of the employer so injured. The making of such affidavit to the office of the State Insurance Fund shall be an indispensable requisite for receiving the medical and hospital services to which the workmen protected by the State Insurance Fund are entitled, with the exception of first-aid treatment in emergency cases. Any person availing himself of the benefits mentioned in § 2a of this title without being entitled thereto, shall be under obligation to reimburse to the State Insurance Fund any payment for medical and hospital services the State Insurance Fund may have unduly made.
History —Apr. 18, 1935, No. 45, p. 250, added as § 2-B on Apr. 30, 1952, No. 160, p. 334, § 2; renumbered as § 2E on Sept. 8, 2004, No. 263, § 1.