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2019 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 616C - Industrial Insurance: Benefits for Injuries or Death
NRS 616C.480 - Reduction of benefits for previous injury causing permanent partial disability prohibited.
Universal Citation: NV Rev Stat § 616C.480 (2019)
If an employee who has received compensation in a lump sum for a permanent partial disability is subsequently injured by an accident arising out of and in the course of his or her employment and is thereby entitled to receive compensation for a temporary total disability, the compensation for the subsequent injury may not be reduced because of the receipt of the lump-sum payment if the subsequent injury is distinct from the previous injury.
(Added to NRS by 1983, 647) — (Substituted in revision for NRS 616.587)
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