2005 Idaho Code - 72-449 — POST MORTEM EXAMINATION

                                  TITLE  72
                      WORKER'S COMPENSATION AND RELATED
                        LAWS -- INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION
                                  CHAPTER 4
                                   BENEFITS
    72-449.  POST MORTEM EXAMINATION. Upon the filing of a claim for
compensation for death from an occupational disease when an autopsy is
necessary accurately and scientifically to ascertain and determine the cause
of death, the autopsy shall be ordered by the commission. The commission may
designate a duly licensed physician, who is a specialist in such examination,
to perform or attend the autopsy and to certify his findings thereon. Such
findings shall be filed with the commission and shall be a public record. The
commission also may exercise such authority on its own motion or on
application made to it at any time by any party in interest, in regard to the
cause of death or the existence of any occupational disease. All proceedings
for compensation shall be suspended upon refusal of a claimant or claimants to
permit such autopsy when so ordered, and no compensation shall be payable
during the continuance of such refusal.