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- W. Va. Code § 23-1-19 · Civil remedies.
- W. Va. Code § 23-1-20 · Employment preference for employees in workers’ compensation litigation unit.
- W. Va. Code § 23-1-21 · Authorization to require the electronic invoices and transfers.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2-1 · Employers subject to chapter; elections not to provide certain coverages; notices; filing of business registration certificates.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2-1a · Employees subject to chapter.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2-1b · Special provisions as to premiums.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2-1c · Extraterritorial coverage; approval and change of agreements.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2-1d · Prime contractors and subcontractors liability.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2-2 · Insurance Commissioner to be furnished information by employers, State Tax Commissioner, and WorkForce West Virginia; secrecy of information; examination of employers, etc.; violation a misdemeanor.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2-3 · Report forms and other forms for use of employers.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2-4 · Classification of industries; rate of premiums; authority to adopt various systems; accounts.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2-5 · Notice to employees.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2-5a · Collection of premiums from defaulting employers; interest and penalties; civil remedies; creation and enforcement of lien against employer and purchaser; duty of Secretary of State to register liens; distraint powers; insolvency proceedings; Secretary of State to withhold certificates of dissolution; injunctive relief; bond; attorney fees and costs.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2-5b · §23-2-5b.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2-5c · Statute of limitations; effective date for new payments; previous payments due not affected.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2-5d · Uncollectible receivables; write-offs.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2-6 · Exemption of contributing employers from liability.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2-6a · Exemption from liability of officers, managers, agents, representatives or employees of contributing employers.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2-7 · Benefits of chapter may not be waived by contract or regulation.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2-8 · Liability of employer for failing to procure or maintain workers’ compensation insurance; certain common-law defenses prohibited; exceptions.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2-9 · Election of employer or employers’ group to be self-insured and to provide own system of compensation; exceptions; self administration; rules; penalties; regulation of self-insurers.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2-9a · Sanctions for default by self-insured employers; rulemaking authority.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2-10 · Application of chapter to interstate commerce.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2-11 · Partial invalidity of chapter.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2-12 · Effect of repeal or invalidity of chapter on action for damages.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2-13 · Interest.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2-14 · Sale or transfer of business; attachment of lien for premium, etc.; payments due; criminal penalties for failure to pay; creation and avoidance or elimination of lien; enforcement of lien; successor liability.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2-15 · Liabilities of successor employer; waiver of payment by commission; assignment of predecessor employer’s premium rate to successor.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2-16 · Acceptance or assignment of premium rate.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2-17 · Employer right to hearing; content of petition; appeal.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2-18 · §23-2-18.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2A-1 · Subrogation; limitations.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2A-2 · §23-2A-2.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2B-1 · Occupational safety and health activities; voluntary compliance; consultative services.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2B-2 · Mandatory programs; safety committees; requirements; rules; exceptions.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2B-3 · Premium rate credits; qualified loss management program; loss management firms; penalties; rules.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2C-1 · Findings and purpose.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2C-2 · Definitions.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2C-3 · Private carriers not subject to certain premium taxes, surcharges, and credits; regulatory surcharge imposed on private carriers and self-insured employers.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2C-3a · Employers’ mutual insurance company - additional provisions enacted in November 2005.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2C-4 · Governance and organization.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2C-5 · Creation of the industrial council; duties.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2C-6 · Continuation of old fund, uninsured employer fund, self-insured employer guaranty risk pool, and self-insured employer security risk pool.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2C-7 · Custody, investment and disbursement of funds.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2C-8 · Workers’ Compensation Uninsured Employer Fund.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2C-9 · §23-2C-9.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2C-10 · West Virginia adverse risk assignment.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2C-11 · Transfer of assets from new fund to the mutual insurance company established as a successor to the commission; transfer of commission employees.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2C-12 · Certain personnel provisions governing Workers’ Compensation Commission employees and employees laid off by the employers’ mutual insurance company during its initial year of operation.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2C-13 · Certain retraining benefits to those employees laid-off by the mutual during its first year of operation.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2C-14 · Certain benefits provided to commission employees.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2C-15 · Mandatory coverage; changing of coverage.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2C-16 · Administration of Old Fund, Uninsured Employer Fund, Self-Insured Employer Guaranty Risk Pool, Self-Insured Employer Security Risk Pool, and Private Carrier Guaranty Fund.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2C-17 · Administration of a competitive system.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2C-18 · Ratemaking; Insurance Commissioner.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2C-18a · Designation of rating organization.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2C-19 · Premium payment; employer default; special provisions as to employer default collection.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2C-20 · Claims administration issues.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2C-21 · Limitation of liability of insurer or third-party administrator; administrative fines are exclusive remedies.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2C-22 · Rules.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2C-23 · Transfer of assets and contracts.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2C-24 · Surplus note or other loan arrangement for new fund.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2D-1 · Short title.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2D-2 · Legislative findings; legislative intent.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2D-3 · Definitions.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2D-4 · Workers’ Compensation debt reduction revenue bonds; amount; when may issue.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2D-5 · Special account created; use of moneys in the Fund.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2D-5a · Excess regular coal severance taxes.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2D-6 · Creation of Debt Service Fund; disbursements to pay debt service on Workers’ Compensation debt reduction revenue bonds.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2D-7 · Covenants of state.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2D-8 · Workers’ compensation debt reduction revenue bonds lawful investments.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2D-9 · Refunding bonds.
- W. Va. Code § 23-2D-10 · Approval and payment of all necessary expenses.
- W. Va. Code § 23-3-1 · Compensation Fund; catastrophe and catastrophe payment defined; compensation by employers.
- W. Va. Code § 23-3-1a · Transfer of silicosis fund to workers’ compensation fund; claims under former article six.
- W. Va. Code § 23-3-2 · Custody, investment and disbursement of funds.
- W. Va. Code § 23-3-3 · Investment of surplus funds required.
- W. Va. Code § 23-3-4 · Deposits and disbursements considered abandoned property; disposition of property.
- W. Va. Code § 23-3-5 · Authorization to require the electronic invoices and transfers.
- W. Va. Code § 23-3-6 · Emergency fiscal measures.
- W. Va. Code § 23-4-1 · To whom compensation fund disbursed; occupational pneumoconiosis and other occupational diseases included in "injury" and "personal injury"; definition of occupational pneumoconiosis and other occupational diseases; rebuttable presumption for cardiovascular injury and disease or pulmonary disease for firefighters.
- W. Va. Code § 23-4-1a · Report of injuries by employee.
- W. Va. Code § 23-4-1b · Report of injuries by employers.
- W. Va. Code § 23-4-1c · Payment of temporary total disability benefits directly to claimant; payment of medical benefits; payments of benefits during protest; right of Insurance Commissioner, private carriers, and self-insured employers to collect payments improperly made.
- W. Va. Code § 23-4-1d · Method and time of payments for permanent disability.
- W. Va. Code § 23-4-1e · Temporary total disability benefits not to be paid for periods of correctional center or jail confinement; denial of workers’ compensation benefits for injuries or disease incurred while confined.
- W. Va. Code § 23-4-1f · Certain psychiatric injuries and diseases not compensable; definitions; legislative findings; terms; report required.
- W. Va. Code § 23-4-1g · Weighing of evidence.
- W. Va. Code § 23-4-2 · Disbursement where injury is self-inflicted or intentionally caused by employer; legislative declarations and findings; "deliberate intention" defined.
- W. Va. Code § 23-4-2a · Limit on liability for noneconomic loss.
- W. Va. Code § 23-4-3 · Schedule of maximum disbursements for medical, surgical, dental, and hospital treatment; legislative approval; guidelines; preferred provider agreements; charges in excess of scheduled amounts not to be made; required disclosure of financial interest in sale or rental of medically related mechanical appliances or devices; promulgation of rules to enforce requirement; consequences of failure to disclose; contract by employer with hospital, physician, etc., prohibited; criminal penalties for violation; payments to certain providers prohibited; medical cost and care program; payments; interlocutory orders.
- W. Va. Code § 23-4-3a · §23-4-3a.
- W. Va. Code § 23-4-3b · Creation of health care advisory panel.
- W. Va. Code § 23-4-3c · Suspension or termination of providers of health care.
- W. Va. Code § 23-4-4 · Funeral expenses; wrongfully seeking payment; criminal penalties.
- W. Va. Code § 23-4-5 · Benefits for first three days after injury.
- W. Va. Code § 23-4-6 · Classification of and criteria for disability benefits.
- W. Va. Code § 23-4-6a · Benefits and mode of payment to employees and dependents for occupational pneumoconiosis; further adjustment of claim for occupational pneumoconiosis.
- W. Va. Code § 23-4-6b · Occupational hearing loss claims.
- W. Va. Code § 23-4-6c · Benefits payable to certain sheltered workshop employees; limitations.