2010 Nevada Code
TITLE 53 LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter 617 Occupational Diseases
NRS 617.400 Compensation: Effect of false representation, willful misconduct and self-exposure.
NRS 617.400 Compensation: Effect of false representation, willful misconduct and self-exposure.
1. No compensation may be awarded on account of disability or death from a disease suffered by an employee who, at the time of entering into the employment from which the disease is claimed to have resulted, knowingly and falsely represented himself or herself as not having previously suffered from the disease.
2. No compensation is payable under this chapter when disability or death is wholly or in part caused by the willful misconduct or willful self-exposure of the employee.
[29:44:1947; 1943 NCL 2800.29]-(NRS A 1993, 767)
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