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25-6-1
Section 25-6-1 Liability of master or employer; effect of servant's or employee's knowledge
of defect or negligence causing injury. (a) Except as otherwise provided by law, when a personal
injury is received by a servant or employee in the service or business of the master or employer,
the master or employer is liable to answer in damages to such servant or employee, as if he
were a stranger and not engaged in such service or employment, provided such liability is
enforced in a court of competent jurisdiction, in the cases following: (1) When the injury
is caused by reason of any defect in the condition of the ways, works, machinery or plant
connected with or used in the business of the master or employer. (2) When the injury is caused
by reason of the negligence of any person in the service or employment of the master or employer
who has any superintendence intrusted to him, while in the exercise of such superintendence.
(3) When such injury is caused by reason of the negligence of...
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11-92B-14
Section 11-92B-14 Liability for injuries. An authority shall not be liable for damages for
injury done to any person or corporation, unless the injury was done due to the negligence
or wantonness of an agent, officer, or employee of the authority while engaged in work for
the authority and while acting in the line and scope of his or her duty, or unless the injury
was done due to the neglect, carelessness, or failure to remedy a defect in the streets, alleys,
drainage systems, or buildings of the authority after the authority had been given notice
of the defect or after the defect had existed for such an unreasonable length of time as to
raise a presumption of knowledge of the defect on the part of the authority. Whenever an authority
shall be made liable for damages by reason of the unauthorized or wrongful acts or negligence
or carelessness of any person or corporation, then the person or corporation shall be liable
to an action on the same account by the party so injured. (Act...
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34-9-18
Section 34-9-18 Grounds for disciplinary action. (a) The board may invoke disciplinary action
as outlined in subsection (b) whenever it shall be established to the satisfaction of the
board, after a hearing as hereinafter provided, that any dentist or dental hygienist has been
guilty of the following: (1) Fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation in obtaining any license,
license certificate, annual registration certificate, money, or other thing of value. (2)
Gross immorality. (3) Is a menace to the public health or to patients or others by reason
of a disease. (4) Is an habitual user of intoxicants or drugs rendering him or her unfit for
the practice of dentistry or dental hygiene. (5) Has been convicted for violation of federal
or state narcotics or barbiturate laws. (6) Is guilty of negligence or gross negligence. a.
For the purposes of this subdivision, negligence is defined as the failure to do what a reasonably
prudent dentist or dental hygienist would have done under the same or...
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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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25-4-7
Section 25-4-7 Employee. Except as modified by the provisions of Section 25-4-10 defining "employment,"
"employee," as used in this chapter, means any individual employed by an employer
subject to this chapter, in which employment the relationship of master and servant exists
between the employee and the person employing him. (Acts 1939, No. 497, p. 721; Code 1940,
T. 26, §184; Acts 1971, No. 166, p. 440, §2.)...
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25-5-51
Section 25-5-51 Right to compensation for injuries or death; grounds for denial of compensation.
If an employer is subject to this article, compensation, according to the schedules hereinafter
contained, shall be paid by the employer, or those conducting the business during bankruptcy
or insolvency, in every case of personal injury or death of his or her employee caused by
an accident arising out of and in the course of his or her employment, without regard to any
question of negligence. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no compensation shall be allowed for
an injury or death caused by the willful misconduct of the employee, by the employee's intention
to bring about the injury or death of himself or herself or of another, his or her willful
failure or willful refusal to use safety appliances provided by the employer or by an accident
due to the injured employee being intoxicated from the use of alcohol or being impaired by
illegal drugs. A positive drug test conducted and evaluated...
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25-5-31
Section 25-5-31 Right of action for damages for injuries or death of employee. When personal
injury or death is caused to an employee by an accident arising out of and in the course of
his employment, of which injury the actual or lawfully imputed negligence of the employer
is the natural and proximate cause, he, or in case of death, his personal representative,
for the exclusive benefit of the surviving spouse and next of kin, shall receive compensation
by way of damages therefor from the employer; provided, that the injury or death was not caused
by the wilful misconduct of the employee or was not due to misconduct on his part, as defined
in Section 25-5-51. (Acts 1919, No. 245, p. 206; Code 1923, §7534; Code 1940, T. 26, §253.)...
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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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11-12-1
Section 11-12-1 Indemnification of owners for injuries, etc., caused by dipping of cattle -
Authorized. The county commission may, in its discretion, indemnify from the funds of such
county the owners of cattle for injuries, damages, or deaths caused by the dipping of such
cattle in compliance with the laws of the state and the rules and regulations of the State
Board of Agriculture and Industries; provided, that such injuries, damages, or deaths have
been caused by the failure or negligence of the regularly qualified inspector commissioned
by the State Board of Agriculture and Industries to see that the arsenical solution used in
the dipping vat is not over the standard of strength recommended by the United States Bureau
of Animal Industry or the State Board of Agriculture and Industries or by any negligence on
the part of any officer or employee of the state or the State Board of Agriculture and Industries
and when the negligence of the owner or person in charge of such cattle has...
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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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