Title 22, LABOR AND SAFETY

Sec. 3. No wage broker shall ask, demand or receive, either as compensation or interest, or in any other manner, directly or indirectly, any compensation or interest for the use of money advanced or loaned by him to any employee or wage earner in excess of the rate of eight per c…

Sec. 4. (a) No assignment of wages by a married person who is living with the person's spouse residing in Indiana to any wage broker shall be valid or enforceable without the consent of the spouse, evidenced by the spouse's signature to said assignment, executed and acknowledged …

Sec. 5. No assignment of wages shall be valid or enforceable unless notice in writing of the same, accompanied by a copy of the assignment, shall be given to the employer or debtor within ten (10) days from the date of its execution. Formerly: Acts 1909, c.34, s.5. As amended by …

Sec. 6. Every purchase of a wage broker of an assignment of the wages of any employee or wage earner shall be held and considered to be a loan in the sum and of the amount actually paid to and received by such employee or wage earner. Formerly: Acts 1909, c.34, s.6. As amended by…

Sec. 7. A person who recklessly violates this chapter commits a Class B misdemeanor. Formerly: Acts 1909, c.34, s.7. As amended by Acts 1978, P.L.2, SEC.2206.

Sec. 8. Any note, bill, or other evidence of indebtedness and any assignment of wages or salary given to or received by any wage broker or any other person in violation of any of the provisions of this chapter shall be null and void and of no effect; and upon conviction, any and …

Sec. 10. (a) As used in this chapter, "occupational disease" means a disease arising out of and in the course of the employment. Ordinary diseases of life to which the general public is exposed outside of the employment shall not be compensable, except where such diseases follow …

Sec. 10.5. For purposes of this chapter, the average weekly wages of a public employee shall be determined without regard to any salary reduction agreement under Section 125 of the Internal Revenue Code. As added by P.L.5-1992, SEC.9.

Sec. 11. On and after April 1, 1957, and prior to April 1, 1967, when death results from an occupational disease within four hundred (400) weeks, there shall be paid to total dependents of said deceased, as determined by the provisions of IC 22-3-7-12, IC 22-3-7-13, IC 22-3-7-14,…

Sec. 12. (a) Dependents under this chapter shall consist of the following three (3) classes: (1) Presumptive dependents. (2) Total dependents in fact. (3) Partial dependents in fact. (b) Presumptive dependents shall be entitled to compensation to the complete exclusion of total d…

Sec. 13. (a) The following persons are conclusively presumed to be wholly dependent for support upon a deceased employee and shall constitute the class known as presumptive dependents in section 12 of this chapter: (1) A wife upon a husband with whom she is living at the time of …

Sec. 14. Total or partial dependents in fact shall include only those persons related to the deceased employee by blood or by marriage, except an unmarried child under eighteen (18) years of age. Any such person who is actually totally or partially dependent upon the deceased emp…

Sec. 15. In cases of the death of an employee from an occupational disease arising out of and in the course of the employee's employment under circumstances that the employee would have been entitled to compensation if death had not resulted, the employer shall pay the burial exp…

Sec. 16. (a) Compensation shall be allowed on account of disablement from occupational disease resulting in only temporary total disability to work or temporary partial disability to work beginning with the eighth day of such disability except for the medical benefits provided fo…

Sec. 17. (a) During the period of disablement, the employer shall furnish or cause to be furnished, free of charge to the employee, an attending physician for the treatment of the employee's occupational disease, and in addition thereto such services and products as the attending…

Sec. 17.1. (a) A medical service provider or a medical service provider's agent, servant, employee, assignee, employer, or independent contractor on behalf of the medical service provider may not knowingly collect or attempt to collect the payment of a charge for medical services…

Sec. 17.2. (a) A billing review service shall adhere to the following requirements to determine the pecuniary liability of an employer or an employer's insurance carrier for a specific service or product covered under this chapter provided before July 1, 2014, by all medical serv…

Sec. 17.4. (a) As used in this section, "legend drug" has the meaning set forth in IC 25-26-14-7. (b) As used in this section, "repackage" has the meaning set forth in IC 25-26-14-9.3. (c) This subsection does not apply to a retail or mail order pharmacy. Except as provided in su…

Sec. 17.6. (a) As used in this section, "formulary" refers to the Official Disability Guidelines (ODG) Workers' Compensation Drug Formulary Appendix A published by MCG Health. (b) As used in this section, "medical emergency" means the sudden onset of a medical condition manifeste…

Sec. 18. (a) Any employer or employee or beneficiary who shall desire to have such compensation, or any unpaid part thereof, paid in a lump sum, may petition the worker's compensation board, asking that such compensation be so paid, and if, upon proper notice to the interested pa…

Sec. 19. (a) In computing compensation for temporary total disability, temporary partial disability, and total permanent disability, the average weekly wages are considered to be: (1) with respect to disablements occurring on and after July 1, 2009, and before July 1, 2014: (A) n…

Sec. 2. (a) Every employer and every employee, except as stated in this chapter, shall comply with this chapter, requiring the employer and employee to pay and accept compensation for disablement or death by occupational disease arising out of and in the course of the employment,…

Sec. 2.6. (a) As used in this section, "work based learning program" has the meaning set forth in IC 20-20.5-11.5-3. (b) Except as provided in subsection (c), a student who performs services for an employer as part of a work based learning program: (1) is entitled to compensation…

Sec. 20. (a) After disablement and during the period of claimed resulting disability or impairment, the employee, if so requested by the employee's employer or ordered by the worker's compensation board, shall submit to an examination at reasonable times and places by a duly qual…

Sec. 21. (a) No compensation is allowed for any condition of physical or mental ill-being, disability, disablement, or death for which compensation is recoverable on account of accidental injury under chapters 2 through 6 of this article. (b) No compensation is allowed for any di…

Sec. 22. (a) The members of the board and its assistants shall be entitled to receive from the state their actual and necessary expenses while traveling on the business of the board, but such expenses shall be sworn to by the person who incurred the same, and shall be approved by…

Sec. 23. The worker's compensation board shall have jurisdiction over the operation and administration of the compensation provisions of this chapter, the board shall perform all of the duties imposed upon it by the provisions of this chapter, and such further duties as may be im…

Sec. 24. (a) The worker's compensation board may make rules not inconsistent with this chapter for carrying out the provisions of this chapter. Processes and procedures under this chapter shall be as summary and simple as reasonably may be. The board, or any member thereof, shall…

Sec. 25. The board shall prepare and cause to be printed, and upon request furnish free of charge to any employer or employee, such blank forms and literature as it shall deem requisite to facilitate or promote the efficient administration of this chapter. The reports of occupati…

Sec. 26. All disputes arising under this chapter, except section 3 of this chapter, if not settled by the agreement of the parties interested therein, with the approval of the board, shall be determined by the board. Formerly: Acts 1937, c.69, s.19. As amended by P.L.144-1986, SE…

Sec. 27. (a) If the employer and the employee or the employee's dependents disagree in regard to the compensation payable under this chapter, or, if they have reached such an agreement, which has been signed by them, filed with and approved by the worker's compensation board, and…

Sec. 28. In order to prevent the accumulation of unnecessary and useless files of papers, the board, in its discretion, may destroy all papers which have been on file for more than two (2) years when there is no claim for compensation pending, or, when compensation has been award…

Sec. 29. (a) All rights of compensation granted by this chapter shall have the same preference or priority for the whole thereof against the assets of the employer as is allowed by law for any unpaid wages for labor. (b) Except as provided in subsection (c), no claims for compens…

Sec. 3. (a) An employer who is exempt under this section from the operation of the compensation provisions of this chapter may at any time waive such exemption and thereby accept the provisions of this chapter by giving notice as provided in subsection (b). (b) The notice of acce…

Sec. 30. (a) If, after seven (7) days from the date of disablement or any time, in case of death, the employer and the employee or his dependents reach an agreement in regard to compensation under this chapter, a memorandum of the agreement in the form prescribed by the worker's …

Sec. 31. (a) No employee, personal representative, or beneficiary shall have power to waive any of the provisions of this chapter in regard to the amount of compensation which may be payable to such employee, personal representative, or beneficiary except after approval by the wo…

Sec. 32. (a) No proceedings for compensation under this chapter shall be maintained unless notice has been given to the employer of disablement arising from an occupational disease as soon as practicable after the date of disablement. No defect or inaccuracy of such notices shall…

Sec. 33. (a) An employee shall be conclusively deemed to have been exposed to the hazards of an occupational disease when for any length of time, however short, he is employed in an occupation or process in which the hazard of the disease exists. The employer liable for the compe…

Sec. 34. (a) As used in this section, "person" does not include: (1) an owner who contracts for performance of work on the owner's owner occupied residential property; or (2) a nonprofit corporation that is recognized as tax exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue …

Sec. 34.3. (a) The worker's compensation board is entitled to request that an employer provide the board with current proof of compliance with section 34 of this chapter. (b) If an employer fails or refuses to provide current proof of compliance by the tenth day after the employe…

Sec. 34.5. (a) As used in this section, "independent contractor" refers to a person described in section 9(b)(5) of this chapter. (b) As used in this section, "person" means an individual, a proprietorship, a partnership, a joint venture, a firm, an association, a corporation, or…

Sec. 35. No contract or agreement, written or implied, rule, regulation, or other device shall in any manner operate to relieve any employer, in whole or in part, of any obligation created by this chapter, except as provided in this chapter. Formerly: Acts 1937, c.69, s.28. As am…

Sec. 36. (a) Whenever disablement or death from an occupational disease arising out of and in the course of the employment for which compensation is payable under this chapter, shall have been sustained under circumstances creating in some other person than the employer and not i…

Sec. 37. (a) Every employer operating under the compensation provisions of this chapter shall keep a record of all disablements by occupational disease, fatal or otherwise, received by the employer's employees in the course of their employment and shall provide a copy of the reco…

Sec. 38. Acts 1937, c.69, s.31 does not extinguish or in any way affect any right of action existing on June 7, 1937, and no employer shall be liable for compensation or damages under the provisions of this chapter in any case in which the disablement on which claim is predicated…

Sec. 5. On and after April 1, 1963, the provisions of this chapter shall apply to the state, to all political divisions thereof, to all municipal corporations within the state, to persons, partnerships, limited liability companies, and corporations engaged in mining coal, and to …