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Chapter 51.32 RCW

COMPENSATION—RIGHT TO AND AMOUNT

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HTMLPDF 51.32.010Who entitled to compensation.
HTMLPDF 51.32.015Time and place of coverage—Lunch period.
HTMLPDF 51.32.020Who not entitled to compensation.
HTMLPDF 51.32.025Payments for children cease at age eighteen—Exceptions.
HTMLPDF 51.32.030When compensation payable to employer or member of corporate employer.
HTMLPDF 51.32.040Protection of awards—Payment after death—Time limitations for filing—Confinement in institution.
HTMLPDF 51.32.045Direct deposit or electronic payment of benefits.
HTMLPDF 51.32.050Death benefits.
HTMLPDF 51.32.053Transportation network companies—Driver death benefits.
HTMLPDF 51.32.055Determination of permanent disabilities—Closure of claims by self-insurers.
HTMLPDF 51.32.060Permanent total disability compensation—Personal attendant.
HTMLPDF 51.32.067Permanent total disability—Death benefit options—Election.
HTMLPDF 51.32.072Additional payments for prior pensioners—Children—Remarriage—Attendant.
HTMLPDF 51.32.073Additional payments for prior pensioners—Premium liability of worker and employer for additional payments.
HTMLPDF 51.32.075Adjustments in compensation or death benefits.
HTMLPDF 51.32.080Permanent partial disability—Specified—Unspecified, rules for classification—Injury after permanent partial disability.
HTMLPDF 51.32.090Temporary total disability—Partial restoration of earning power—Return to available work—When employer continues wages—Limitations—Finding—Rules.
HTMLPDF 51.32.095Vocational rehabilitation services—Benefits—Priorities—Allowable costs—Performance criteria.
HTMLPDF 51.32.096Vocational rehabilitation benefits and options—Advisory committee—Procedures—Requirements—Definitions—Costs.
HTMLPDF 51.32.098Vocational rehabilitation services—Applicability.
HTMLPDF 51.32.100Preexisting disease.
HTMLPDF 51.32.110Medical examination—Refusal to submit—Traveling expenses—Pay for time lost.
HTMLPDF 51.32.112Medical examination—Standards and criteria—Special examinations by chiropractors—Compensation guidelines and reporting criteria.
HTMLPDF 51.32.114Medical examination—Department to monitor quality and objectivity.
HTMLPDF 51.32.120Further accident after lump sum payment.
HTMLPDF 51.32.130Lump sum for death or permanent total disability.
HTMLPDF 51.32.135Closing of claim in pension cases—Consent of spouse.
HTMLPDF 51.32.140Nonresident individual who is not a citizen or national of the United States beneficiary.
HTMLPDF 51.32.150Lump sum to beneficiary outside state.
HTMLPDF 51.32.160Aggravation, diminution, or termination.
HTMLPDF 51.32.180Occupational diseases—Limitation.
HTMLPDF 51.32.181Occupational diseases—Public health emergencies—Infectious or contagious diseases.
HTMLPDF 51.32.185Occupational diseases—Presumption of occupational disease for firefighters and fire investigators—Limitations—Exception—Rules—Advisory committee on occupational disease presumptions.
HTMLPDF 51.32.187Exposed workers—Prima facie presumption of certain occupational diseases—Rebuttal—Definitions.
HTMLPDF 51.32.190Self-insurers—Notice of denial of claim, reasons—Procedure—Powers and duties of director.
HTMLPDF 51.32.195Self-insurers—Information to department.
HTMLPDF 51.32.200Self-insurers—Enforcement of compensation order against.
HTMLPDF 51.32.210Claims of injured workers, prompt action—Payment—Acceptance—Effect.
HTMLPDF 51.32.215Payment of compensation after appeal—Enforcement of order—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 51.32.220Reduction in total disability compensation—Limitations—Notice—Waiver—Adjustment for retroactive reduction in federal social security disability benefit—Restrictions.
HTMLPDF 51.32.225Reduction in total disability compensation—Offset for social security retirement benefits.
HTMLPDF 51.32.230Recovery of overpayments.
HTMLPDF 51.32.240Erroneous payments—Payments induced by willful misrepresentation—Adjustment for self-insurer's failure to pay benefits—Recoupment of overpayments by self-insurer—Penalty—Appeal—Enforcement of orders.
HTMLPDF 51.32.242Self-insured employer overpayment reimbursement fund—Withholding from worker earnings—Use of funds—Exception.
HTMLPDF 51.32.250Payment of job modification costs.
HTMLPDF 51.32.260Compensation for loss or damage to personal effects.
HTMLPDF 51.32.300State employee vocational rehabilitation coordinator.
HTMLPDF 51.32.350Chemically related illness—Criteria and procedures for claims—Claims management.
HTMLPDF 51.32.360Chemically related illness—Centers for research and clinical assessment.
HTMLPDF 51.32.370Chemically related illness—Research projects—Implementation plan—Funding—Deductions from employees' pay.
HTMLPDF 51.32.380Injured offenders—Benefits sent in the care of the department of corrections—Exception—Liability.
HTMLPDF 51.32.390Health care employees—Presumption of occupational disease for infectious or contagious diseases which are the subject of a public health emergency—Rebuttal—Limitations—Costs.
HTMLPDF 51.32.395Direct care registered nurses—Presumption of occupational disease for posttraumatic stress disorder.

Notes:

Self-insured employer overpayment reimbursement fund: RCW 51.44.142.
Victims of crimes, benefits: Chapter 7.68 RCW.