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25-5-57
Section 25-5-57 Compensation for disability. (a) Compensation schedule. Following is
the schedule of compensation: (1) TEMPORARY TOTAL DISABILITY. For injury producing temporary
total disability, the compensation shall be 66 2/3 percent of the average weekly earnings
received at the time of injury, subject to a maximum and minimum weekly compensation as stated
in Section 25-5-68, but if at the time of injury the employee received average weekly
earnings of less than the minimum stated in Section 25-5-68, then he or she shall receive
the full amount of the average weekly earnings per week. This compensation shall be paid during
the time of the disability, but at the time as a temporary total disability shall become permanent,
compensation for the continued total disability shall be governed by (a)(4) of this section
with respect to permanent total disability. Payments are to be made at the intervals when
the earnings were payable, as nearly as may be, unless the parties otherwise agree....
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25-5-11
Section 25-5-11 Actions against third parties jointly liable with employers for injuries
or death; actions for injury or death resulting from willful conduct; attorney's fees in settlements
with third parties. (a) If the injury or death for which compensation is payable under Articles
3 or 4 of this chapter was caused under circumstances also creating a legal liability for
damages on the part of any party other than the employer, whether or not the party is subject
to this chapter, the employee, or his or her dependents in case of death, may proceed against
the employer to recover compensation under this chapter or may agree with the employer upon
the compensation payable under this chapter, and at the same time, may bring an action against
the other party to recover damages for the injury or death, and the amount of the damages
shall be ascertained and determined without regard to this chapter. If a party, other than
the employer, is a workers' compensation insurance carrier of the...
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25-5-81
Section 25-5-81 Determination of disputed compensation claims generally. (a) Commencement
of action in circuit court. (1) PROCEDURE. In case of a dispute between employer and employee
or between the dependents of a deceased employee and the employer with respect to the right
to compensation under this article and Article 2 of this chapter, or the amount thereof, either
party may submit the controversy to the circuit court of the county which would have jurisdiction
of a civil action in tort between the parties. The controversy shall be heard and determined
by the judge who would hear and determine a civil action between the same parties arising
out of tort, and, in case there is more than one judge of the court, the controversies shall
be set and assigned for hearing under the same rules and statutes that civil actions in tort
are set and assigned. The court may hear and determine the controversies in a summary manner.
The decision of the judge hearing the same shall be conclusive and...
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25-4-78
Section 25-4-78 Disqualifications for benefits. An individual shall be disqualified
for total or partial unemployment for any of the following: (1) LABOR DISPUTE IN PLACE OF
EMPLOYMENT. For any week in which an individual's total or partial unemployment is directly
due to a labor dispute still in active progress in the establishment in which he or she is
or was last employed. For the purposes of this section only, the term labor dispute
includes any controversy concerning terms, tenure, or conditions of employment, or concerning
the association or representation of persons in negotiating, fixing, maintaining, changing,
or seeking to arrange terms or conditions of employment, regardless of whether the disputants
stand in the proximate relation of employer and employee. This definition shall not relate
to a dispute between an individual worker and his or her employer. (2) VOLUNTARILY QUITTING
WORK. If an individual has left his or her most recent bona fide work voluntarily without
good...
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25-5-1
Section 25-5-1 Definitions. Throughout this chapter, the following words and phrases
as used therein shall be considered to have the following meanings, respectively, unless the
context shall clearly indicate a different meaning in the connection used: (1) COMPENSATION.
The money benefits to be paid on account of injury or death, as provided in Articles 3 and
4. The recovery which an employee may receive by action at law under Article 2 of this chapter
is termed "recovery of civil damages," as provided for in Sections 25-5-31 and 25-5-34.
"Compensation" does not include medical and surgical treatment and attention, medicine,
medical and surgical supplies, and crutches and apparatus furnished an employee on account
of an injury. (2) CHILD or CHILDREN. The terms include posthumous children and all other children
entitled by law to inherit as children of the deceased; stepchildren who were members of the
family of the deceased, at the time of the accident, and were dependent upon him or...
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25-5-68
Section 25-5-68 Maximum and minimum weekly compensation. (a) The compensation paid under
this article shall be not less than, except as otherwise provided in this article, 27 1/2
percent of the average weekly wage of the state as determined by the secretary, rounded to
the nearest dollar, pursuant to subsection (b) and, in any event, no more than 100 percent
of the average weekly wage. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the maximum compensation payable
for permanent partial disability shall be no more than the lesser of two hundred twenty dollars
($220) per week or 100 percent of the average weekly wage. (b) For the purpose of this section,
the average weekly wage of the state shall be determined by the secretary as follows: On or
before June 1 of each year, the total wages reported on contribution reports to the unemployment
compensation division of the department for the preceding calendar year shall be divided by
the average monthly number of insured workers, which shall be determined...
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25-5-60
Section 25-5-60 Compensation for death. In death cases, where the death results proximately
from the accident within three years, compensation payable to dependents shall be computed
on the following basis and shall be paid to the persons entitled thereto without administration,
or to a guardian or other person as the court may direct, for the use and benefit of the person
entitled thereto. (1) PERSONS ENTITLED TO BENEFITS; AMOUNT OF BENEFITS. a. If the deceased
employee leaves one dependent, there shall be paid to the dependent 50 percent of the average
weekly earnings of the deceased. b. If the deceased employee leaves two or more dependents,
there shall be paid to the dependents 66 2/3 percent of the average weekly earnings of the
deceased. c. If one of two or more dependents is a widow or widower, the compensation may
be paid to the widow or widower for the benefit of herself or himself and the dependent child
or children. In its discretion and when it considers appropriate to do...
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25-5-77
Section 25-5-77 Expenses of medical and surgical treatment, vocational rehabilitation,
medicine, etc.; medical examinations; review by ombudsman of medical services. (a) In addition
to the compensation provided in this article and Article 4 of this chapter, the employer,
where applicable, shall pay the actual cost of the repair, refitting, or replacement of artificial
members damaged as the result of an accident arising out of and in the course of employment,
and the employer, except as otherwise provided in this amendatory act, shall pay an amount
not to exceed the prevailing rate or maximum schedule of fees as established herein of reasonably
necessary medical and surgical treatment and attention, physical rehabilitation, medicine,
medical and surgical supplies, crutches, artificial members, and other apparatus as the result
of an accident arising out of and in the course of the employment, as may be obtained by the
injured employee or, in case of death, obtained during the period...
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27-19-22
Section 27-19-22 Optional policy provisions - Relation of earnings to insurance. (a)
There may be a provision as follows: "Relation of Earnings to Insurance: If the total
monthly amount of loss of time benefits promised for the same loss under all valid loss of
time coverage upon the insured, whether payable on a weekly or monthly basis, shall exceed
the monthly earnings of the insured at the time disability commenced or his average monthly
earnings for the period of two years immediately preceding a disability for which claim is
made, whichever is the greater, the insurer will be liable only for such proportionate amount
of such benefits under this policy as the amount of such monthly earnings or such average
monthly earnings of the insured bears to the total amount of monthly benefits for the same
loss under all such coverage upon the insured at the time such disability commences and for
the return of such part of the premiums paid during such two years as shall exceed the pro
rata...
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45-37-123.01
Section 45-37-123.01 Definitions. For the purposes of this part, the following terms
shall have the following meanings: (1) ACT. The act adding this part, to be called the General
Retirement System for Employees of Jefferson County Act. (2) ACTIVE MEMBER. An individual
who currently is employed by the county or other entities set forth in subdivision (20) and
is making employee contributions to the system. (3) ACTUARIAL EQUIVALENT. Effective July 30,
1984, or such other dates as set forth in Exhibit A, which is maintained in the office of
the pension board, a form of benefit differing in time, period, or manner of payment from
a specific benefit provided under the plan but having the same value when computed using the
mortality tables, the interest rate, and any other assumptions last adopted by the pension
board, which assumptions shall clearly preclude any discretion in the determination of the
amount of a member's benefit. (4) ACTUARIAL GAIN. As defined in Section...
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