2009 Rhode Island Code
Title 28 - Labor and Labor Relations
CHAPTER 28-35 - Workers' Compensation – Procedure
§ 28-35-46 - Notice of intent to discontinue, suspend, or reduce payments – Filing – Form.

SECTION 28-35-46

   § 28-35-46  Notice of intent to discontinue, suspend, or reduce payments – Filing – Form. – Before an employer may discontinue, suspend, or reduce compensation payments whether they are being received under an agreement, memorandum of agreement, award, order, finding, or decree, or when suitable alternative employment has been offered to the employee pursuant to § 28-33-18.2, the employer shall notify the court and the employee of his or her intention to discontinue, suspend, or reduce payments and the reason for doing so by filing with the judge an affidavit setting forth the factual basis for filing the petition to review along with a copy of the medical reports upon which the employer seeks to justify the discontinuance, suspension, or reduction in payments. A copy of the affidavit and medical report shall be forwarded to the employee. The notice of intention to discontinue, suspend, or reduce payments must be given fifteen (15) days prior to the proposed date of discontinuance, suspension, or reduction; provided, that where an employee has returned to work at an average weekly wage equal to or in excess of that which he or she was earning at the time of his or her injury, not including overtime, the notice of intention to discontinue, suspend, or reduce the payments provided for in this section may be given five (5) days prior to the proposed date of discontinuance. Notices shall be in substantially the following form:

   Notice to Workers' Compensation Court and Employee

   of

   Intention to Discontinue, Suspend, or Reduce Payment

   You are hereby notified that the undersigned employer intends on the........ day of.................... 20......, to discontinue, suspend, or reduce the payments of compensation to the above-named employee for the following reasons, to wit:

   (1) Employee has returned to work at an average weekly wage equal to or in excess of that which he or she was earning at the time of his or her injury, not including overtime.

   (2) Employee has returned to work and is earning wages in the sum of.......... dollars weekly.

   (3) Employee has been discharged by his or her treating physician on the...... day of.......... 20.....