Article 4 - DISABILITY AND DEATH BENEFITS
- Section 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
- Section 23-4-1a - Report of injuries by employee
- Section 23-4-1b - Report of injuries by employers
- Section 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
- Section 23-4-1d - Method and time of payments for permanent disability
- Section 23-4-1e - Temporary total disability benefits not to be paid for periods of correctional center or jail confinement; denial of worker's compensation benefits for injuries or disease incurred while confined
- Section 23-4-1f - Certain psychiatric injuries and diseases not compensable; definitions; legislative findings; terms; report required
- Section 23-4-1g - Weighing of evidence
- Section 23-4-2 - Disbursement where injury is self-inflicted or intentionally caused by employer; legislative declarations and findings; "deliberate intention" defined
- Section 23-4-2a - Limit on liability for noneconomic loss
- Section 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
- Section 23-4-3a - Repealed
- Section 23-4-3b - Creation of health care advisory panel
- Section 23-4-3c - Suspension or termination of providers of health care
- Section 23-4-4 - Funeral expenses; wrongfully seeking payment; criminal penalties
- Section 23-4-5 - Benefits for first three days after injury
- Section 23-4-6 - Classification of and criteria for disability benefits
- Section 23-4-6a - Benefits and mode of payment to employees and dependents for occupational pneumoconiosis; further adjustment of claim for occupational pneumoconiosis
- Section 23-4-6b - Occupational hearing loss claims
- Section 23-4-6c - Benefits payable to certain sheltered workshop employees; limitations
- Section 23-4-6d - Benefits payable to part-time employees
- Section 23-4-7 - Release of medical information to employer; legislative findings; effect of application for benefits; duty of employer
- Section 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
- Section 23-4-7b - Trial return to work; Insurance Commissioner to develop rules
- Section 23-4-8 - Physical examination of claimant
- Section 23-4-8a - Occupational Pneumoconiosis Board; composition; term of office; duties; quorum; remuneration
- Section 23-4-8b - Occupational Pneumoconiosis Board; procedure; autopsy
- Section 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
- Section 23-4-8d - Occupational pneumoconiosis claims never closed for medical benefits with exception of settled claims
- Section 23-4-8e - Repealed
- Section 23-4-8f - Repealed
- Section 23-4-9 - Physical and vocational rehabilitation
- Section 23-4-9a - Repealed
- Section 23-4-9b - Preexisting impairments not considered in fixing amount of compensation
- Section 23-4-10 - Classification of death benefits; "dependent" defined
- Section 23-4-11 - To whom death benefits paid
- Section 23-4-12 - Application of benefits
- Section 23-4-13 - Effect of abandonment of spouse
- Section 23-4-14 - Computation of benefits
- Section 23-4-15 - Application for benefits
- Section 23-4-15a - Nonresident alien beneficiaries
- Section 23-4-15b - Determination of nonmedical questions; claims for occupational pneumoconiosis; hearing
- Section 23-4-15c - Repealed
- Section 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
- Section 23-4-16a - Interest on benefits
- Section 23-4-17 - Commutation of periodical benefits
- Section 23-4-18 - Mode of paying benefits generally; exemptions of compensation from legal process
- Section 23-4-19 - Repealed
- Section 23-4-20 - Postmortem examinations
- Section 23-4-21 - Severability
- Section 23-4-22 - Permanent disability evaluations; limitations; notice
- Section 23-4-23 - Permanent total disability benefits; reduction of disability benefits; reduction of benefits; application of section; severability
- Section 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
- Section 23-4-25 - Permanent total disability benefits; reduction of disability benefits for wages earned by claimant