Title 72 — WORKER’S COMPENSATION AND RELATED LAWS — INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION

72-701. Notice of injury and claim for compensation for injury — Limitations. No proceedings under this law shall be maintained unless a notice of the accident shall have been given to the employer as soon as practicable but not later than sixty (60) days after the happening ther…

72-702. Form of notice and claim. Such notice and such claim shall be in writing; the notice shall contain the name and address of the employee, and shall state in ordinary language the time, place, nature and cause of the injury or disease and shall be signed by him or by a pers…

72-703. Giving of notice and making of claim. Any notice under this law shall be given to the employer, or, if the employer is a partnership, then to any one (1) of the partners. If the employer is a corporation, then the notice may be given to any agent of the corporation upon w…

72-704. Sufficiency of notice — Knowledge of employer. A notice given under the provisions of section 72-701 or section 72-448, Idaho Code, shall not be held invalid or insufficient by reason of any inaccuracy in stating the time, place, nature or cause of the injury, or disease,…

72-705. Limitation of time — Minors and incompetents. No limitation of time provided in this law shall run as against any person who is mentally incompetent or a minor dependent so long as he has no committee, guardian or next friend.

72-706. Limitation on time on application for hearing. (1) When no compensation paid. When a claim for compensation has been made and no compensation has been paid thereon, the claimant, unless misled to his prejudice by the employer or surety, shall have one (1) year from the da…

72-707. Commission has jurisdiction of disputes. All questions arising under this law, if not settled by agreement or stipulation of the interested parties with the approval of the commission, except as otherwise herein provided, shall be determined by the commission.

72-708. Process and procedure. Process and procedure under this law shall be as summary and simple as reasonably may be and as far as possible in accordance with the rules of equity.

72-709. Attendance of witnesses — Production of documents — Deposition — Witness fees. (1) The commission or any member thereof or any hearing officer, examiner or referee appointed by the commission shall have the power to subpoena witnesses, administer oaths, take testimony, is…

72-710. Transcripts of proceedings. A stenographic or machine transcription of any proceeding or of testimony adduced at any hearing, shall be taken by the commission.

72-711. Compensation agreements. If the employer and the afflicted employee reach an agreement in regard to compensation under this law, a memorandum of the agreement shall be filed with the commission, and, if approved by it, thereupon the memorandum shall for all purposes be an…

72-712. Hearings. Upon application of any party to the proceeding, or when ordered by the commission or a member thereof or a hearing officer, referee or examiner, and when issues in a case cannot be resolved by pre-hearing conferences or otherwise, a hearing shall be held for th…

72-713. Notice of hearings — Service. (1) The commission shall give at least ten (10) days’ written notice of the time and place of hearing and of the issues to be heard. (2) Parties represented by an attorney shall receive notice by email. (3) Unrepresented parties shall receive…

72-714. Hearings, where and how conducted. (1) The hearing may be held in the city or town or within the county where the injury or disease occurred, or in such other place as the commission deems most convenient for the parties and most appropriate for ascertaining their rights.…

72-715. Disobedience to commission’s directive process. If any person in proceedings before the commission or a member thereof, or hearing officer, referee or examiner, disobeys or resists any lawful order or process, or misbehaves during a hearing or so near the place thereof as…

72-716. Record of proceedings — Service of order or award. A decision of the commission together with the transcript of the evidence, findings of fact, rulings of law, award or order, and any other matter pertinent to the questions arising during the hearing shall be filed in the…

72-717. Effect of decision by one member or assigned officer — Claim for review. If the matter has been assigned for hearing by a member, hearing officer, referee, or examiner, the record of such hearing, together with the recommended findings and determination, shall be submitte…

72-718. Finality of commission’s decision. A decision of the commission, in the absence of fraud, shall be final and conclusive as to all matters adjudicated by the commission upon filing the decision in the office of the commission; provided, within twenty (20) days from the dat…

72-719. Modification of awards and agreements — Grounds — Time within which made. (1) On application made by a party in interest filed with the commission at any time within five (5) years of the date of the accident causing the injury or date of first manifestation of an occupat…

72-724. Appeal to supreme court. An appeal may be made to the supreme court by such parties from such decisions and orders of the commission and within such times and in such manner as prescribed by rule of the supreme court.

72-725. Record on appeal. The agency’s record and reporter’s transcript in an appeal to the supreme court shall contain such portions and documents of the proceedings of the commission, and be prepared, processed and transmitted to the supreme court as provided by rule of the sup…

72-731. Stay on appeal. An appeal to the supreme court shall automatically operate as a supersedeas or stay of the award, order or decision being disputed on the appeal unless the commission shall otherwise order.

72-732. Disposition of appeal — Jurisdiction of Supreme Court. Upon hearing the court may affirm or set aside such order or award, or may set it aside only upon any of the following grounds: (1) The commission’s findings of fact are not based on any substantial competent evidence…

72-733. Limited jurisdiction of courts. Except as herein provided, no court of this state shall have jurisdiction to review, vacate, set aside, reverse, revise, correct, amend or annul any order or award of the commission, or to suspend or delay the execution or operation thereof…

72-734. Interest on compensation awards. Whenever a decision shall have been entered by the commission awarding compensation of any kind to a claimant, such award shall accrue and the employer shall become liable for, and shall pay, interest thereon from the date of such decision…

72-735. Enforcement of award — Filing in district court — Duty of court to enter judgment. (1) In the event of default in payment of compensation due under an award and on or after the 30th day from the date upon which compensation became due, any party in interest may file in th…

72-736. District court judgment nonappealable — A lien upon execution. The decree or judgment from the district court entered pursuant to section 72-735, shall have the same effect, and all proceedings in relation thereto shall thereafter be the same as though said decree or judg…

72-737. Revision of district court’s judgment upon modification of award by commission. The district court, upon the filing with it of a certified copy of a decision of the commission ending, diminishing or increasing compensation previously awarded, shall revoke or modify its pr…