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2013 North Carolina General Statutes
Chapter 97 - Workers' Compensation Act.
Article 1 - Workers' Compensation Act.
- Section 97-1 - Short title.
- Section 97-1.1 - 1. References to workmen's compensation.
- Section 97-2 - Definitions.
- Section 97-3 - Presumption that all employers and employees have come under provisions of Article.
- Section 97-4 - Repealed by Session Laws 1973, c. 1291, s. 2.
- Section 97-5 - Presumption as to contract of service.
- Section 97-5.1 - 1. Presumption that taxicab drivers are independent contractors.
- Section 97-6 - No special contract can relieve an employer of obligations.
- Section 97-6.1 - 1: Repealed by 1991 (Regular Session, 1992), c. 1021, s. 4.
- Section 97-7 - State or subdivision and employees thereof.
- Section 97-8 - Prior injuries and deaths unaffected.
- Section 97-9 - Employer to secure payment of compensation.
- Section 97-10 - Repealed by Session Laws 1959, c. 1324.
- Section 97-10.1 - 1. Other rights and remedies against employer excluded.
- Section 97-10.2 - 2. Rights under Article not affected by liability of third party; rights and remedies against third parties.
- Section 97-10.3 - 3. Minors illegally employed.
- Section 97-11 - Employer not relieved of statutory duty.
- Section 97-12 - Use of intoxicant or controlled substance; willful neglect; willful disobedience of statutory duty, safety regulation or rule.
- Section 97-12.1 - 1. Willful misrepresentation in applying for employment.
- Section 97-13 - Exceptions from provisions of Article.
- Section 97-14 through 97-16 - Repealed by Session Laws 1973, c. 1291, ss. 7-9.
- Section 97-17 - Settlements allowed in accordance with Article.
- Section 97-18 - Prompt payment of compensation required; installments; payment without prejudice; notice to Commission; penalties.
- Section 97-18.1 - 1. Termination or suspension of compensation benefits.
- Section 97-19 - Liability of principal contractors; certificate that subcontractor has complied with law; right to recover compensation of those who would have been liable; order of liability.
- Section 97-19.1 - 1. Truck, tractor, or truck tractor trailer driver's status as employee or independent contractor.
- Section 97-20 - Priority of compensation claims against assets of employer.
- Section 97-21 - Claims unassignable and exempt from taxes and debts; agreement of employee to contribute to premium or waive right to compensation void; unlawful deduction by employer.
- Section 97-22 - Notice of accident to employer.
- Section 97-23 - What notice is to contain; defects no bar; notice personally or by registered letter or certified mail.
- Section 97-24 - Right to compensation barred after two years; destruction of records.
- Section 97-25 - Medical treatment and supplies.
- Section 97-25.1 - 1. Limitation of duration of medical compensation.
- Section 97-25.2 - 2. Managed care organizations.
- Section 97-25.3 - 3. Preauthorization.
- Section 97-25.4 - 4. Utilization guidelines for medical treatment.
- Section 97-25.5 - 5. Utilization guidelines for vocational and other rehabilitation.
- Section 97-25.6 - 6. Reasonable access to medical information.
- Section 97-26 - Fees allowed for medical treatment; malpractice of physician.
- Section 97-26.1 - 1. Fees for medical records and reports; expert witnesses; communications with health care providers.
- Section 97-27 - Medical examination; facts not privileged; refusal to be examined suspends compensation; other medical opinions; autopsy.
- Section 97-28 - Seven-day waiting period; exceptions.
- Section 97-29 - Rates and duration of compensation for total incapacity.
- Section 97-29.1 - 1. Increase in payments in cases for total and permanent disability occurring prior to July 1, 1973.
- Section 97-30 - Partial incapacity.
- Section 97-31 - Schedule of injuries; rate and period of compensation.
- Section 97-31.1 - 1. Effective date of legislative changes in benefits.
- Section 97-32 - Refusal of injured employee to accept suitable employment as suspending compensation.
- Section 97-32.1 - 1. Trial return to work.
- Section 97-32.2 - 2. Vocational rehabilitation.
- Section 97-33 - Prorating in event of earlier disability or injury.
- Section 97-34 - Employee receiving an injury when being compensated for former injury.
- Section 97-35 - How compensation paid for two injuries; employer liable only for subsequent injury.
- Section 97-36 - Accidents taking place outside State; employees receiving compensation from another state.
- Section 97-37 - Where injured employee dies before total compensation is paid.
- Section 97-38 - Where death results proximately from compensable injury or occupational disease; dependents; burial expenses; compensation to aliens; election by partial dependents.
- Section 97-39 - Widow, widower, or child to be conclusively presumed to be dependent; other cases determined upon facts; division of death benefits among those wholly dependent; when division among partially dependent.
- Section 97-40 - Commutation and payment of compensation in absence of dependents; "next of kin" defined; commutation and distribution of compensation to partially dependent next of kin; payment in absence of both dependents and next of kin.
- Section 97-40.1 - 1. Second Injury Fund.
- Section 97-41 - Repealed by Session Laws 1973, c. 1308, s. 5.
- Section 97-42 - Deduction of payments.
- Section 97-42.1 - 1. Credit for unemployment benefits.
- Section 97-43 - Commission may prescribe monthly or quarterly payments.
- Section 97-44 - Lump sums.
- Section 97-45 - Reducing to judgment outstanding liability of insurance carriers withdrawing from State.
- Section 97-46 - Lump sum payments to trustee; receipt to discharge employer.
- Section 97-47 - Change of condition; modification of award.
- Section 97-47.1 - 1. Payment without prejudice; limitations period.
- Section 97-48 - Receipts relieving employer; payment to minors; when payment of claims to dependents subsequent in right discharges employer.
- Section 97-49 - Benefits of mentally incompetent or minor employees under 18 may be paid to a trustee, etc.
- Section 97-50 - Limitation as against minors or mentally incompetent.
- Section 97-51 - Joint employment; liabilities.
- Section 97-52 - Occupational disease made compensable; "accident" defined.
- Section 97-53 - (See editor's note on condition precedent) Occupational diseases enumerated; when due to exposure to chemicals.
- Section 97-54 - "Disablement" defined.
- Section 97-55 - "Disability" defined.
- Section 97-56 - Limitation on compensable diseases.
- Section 97-57 - Employer liable.
- Section 97-58 - Time limit for filing claims.
- Section 97-59 - Employer to pay for treatment.
- Section 97-60 - Repealed by Session Laws 2003-284, s. 10.33(a), effective July 1, 2003.
- Section 97-61 - Rewritten as 97-61.1 to 97-61.7.
- Section 97-61.1 - 1. First examination of and report on employee having asbestosis or silicosis.
- Section 97-61.2 - 2. Filing of first report; right of hearing; effect of report as testimony.
- Section 97-61.3 - 3. Second examination and report.
- Section 97-61.4 - 4. Third examination and report.
- Section 97-61.5 - 5. Hearing after first examination and report; removal of employee from hazardous occupation; compensation upon removal from hazardous occupation.
- Section 97-61.6 - 6. Hearing after third examination and report; compensation for disability and death from asbestosis or silicosis.
- Section 97-61.7 - 7. Waiver of right to compensation as alternative to forced change of occupation.
- Section 97-62 - "Silicosis" and "asbestosis" defined.
- Section 97-63 - Period necessary for employee to be exposed.
- Section 97-64 - General provisions of act to control as regards benefits.
- Section 97-65 - Reduction of rate where tuberculosis develops.
- Section 97-66 - Claim where benefits are discontinued.
- Section 97-67 - Postmortem examinations; notice to next of kin and insurance carrier.
- Section 97-68 - Controverted medical questions.
- Section 97-69 - Examination by advisory medical committee; inspection of medical reports.
- Section 97-70 - Report of committee to Industrial Commission.
- Section 97-71 - Filing report; right of hearing on report.
- Section 97-72 - Appointment of advisory medical committee; terms of office; duties and functions; salaries and expenses.
- Section 97-73 - Fees.
- Section 97-74 - Expense of hearings taxed as costs in compensation cases; fees collected directed to general fund.
- Section 97-75 - Repealed by Session Laws 2003-284, s. 10.33(f), effective July 1, 2003.
- Section 97-76 - Repealed by Session Laws 2003-284, s. 10.33(f), effective July 1, 2003.
- Section 97-77 - North Carolina Industrial Commission created; members appointed by Governor; terms of office; chairman.
- Section 97-77.1 - 1. Expired.
- Section 97-78 - Salaries and expenses; administrator, executive secretary, deputy commissioners, and other staff assistance; annual report.
- Section 97-78.1 - 1. Standards of judicial conduct to apply to commissioners and deputy commissioners.
- Section 97-79 - Offices and supplies; deputies with power to subpoena witnesses and to take testimony; meetings; hearings.
- Section 97-80 - Rules and regulations; subpoena of witnesses; examination of books and records; depositions; costs.
- Section 97-81 - Blank forms and literature; statistics; safety provisions; accident reports; studies and investigations and recommendations to General Assembly; to cooperate with other agencies for prevention of injury.
- Section 97-82 - Memorandum of agreement between employer and employee to be submitted to Commission on prescribed forms for approval; direct payment as award.
- Section 97-83 - Commission is to make award after hearing.
- Section 97-83.1 - 1. Facilities for hearings; security.
- Section 97-84 - Determination of disputes by Commission or deputy.
- Section 97-85 - Review of award.
- Section 97-86 - Award conclusive as to facts; appeal; certified questions of law.
- Section 97-86.1 - 1. Payment of award pending appeal in certain cases.
- Section 97-86.2 - 2. Interest on awards after hearing.
- Section 97-87 - Judgments on awards.
- Section 97-88 - Expenses of appeals brought by insurers.
- Section 97-88.1 - 1. Attorney's fees at original hearing.
- Section 97-88.2 - 2. Penalty for fraud.
- Section 97-88.3 - 3. Penalty for health care providers.
- Section 97-89 - Commission may appoint qualified physician to make necessary examinations; expenses; fees.
- Section 97-90 - Legal and medical fees to be approved by Commission; misdemeanor to receive fees unapproved by Commission, or to solicit employment in adjusting claims; agreement for fee or compensation.
- Section 97-90.1 - 1. Insurers that provide employee's health benefit plans, disability income plans, or any other health insurance plans as real parties in interest; reimbursement.
- Section 97-91 - Commission to determine all questions.
- Section 97-92 - Employer's record and report of accidents; records of Commission not open to public; supplementary report upon termination of disability; penalty for refusal to make report; when insurance carrier liable.
- Section 97-93 - Employers required to carry insurance or prove financial ability to pay for benefits; employers required to post notice; self-insured employers regulated by Commissioner of Insurance.
- Section 97-94 - Employers required to give proof that they have complied with preceding section; penalty for not keeping liability insured; review; liability for compensation; criminal penalties for failure to secure payment of compensation.
- Section 97-95 - Actions against employers failing to effect insurance or qualify as self-insurer.
- Section 97-96 - Repealed by Session Laws 1997-362, s. 7.
- Section 97-97 - Insurance policies must contain clause that notice to employer is notice to insurer, etc.
- Section 97-98 - Policy must contain agreement promptly to pay benefits; continuance of obligation of insurer in event of default.
- Section 97-99 - Law written into each insurance policy; form of policy to be approved by Commissioner of Insurance; single catastrophe hazards.
- Section 97-100 - Rates for insurance; carrier to make reports for determination of solvency; tax upon premium; wrongful or fraudulent representation of carrier punishable as misdemeanor; notices.
- Section 97-101 - Collection of fines and penalties.
- Section 97-101.1 - 1. Commission may issue writs of habeas corpus.
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