Title Minnesota Statutes, Minnesota Statutes

176.461 SETTING ASIDE AWARD. (a) Except when a writ of certiorari has been issued by the supreme court and the matter is still pending in that court or if as a matter of law the determination of the supreme court cannot be subsequently modified, the Workers' Compensation Court of…

176.471 REVIEW BY SUPREME COURT ON CERTIORARI. § Subdivision 1.Time for seeking review; grounds. Where the Workers' Compensation Court of Appeals has made an award or disallowance of compensation or other order, a party in interest who acts within 30 days from the date the party …

176.481 ORIGINAL JURISDICTION OF SUPREME COURT. On review upon certiorari under this chapter, the supreme court has original jurisdiction. It may reverse, affirm, or modify the order allowing or disallowing compensation and enter such judgment as it deems just and proper. Where n…

176.491 STAY OF PROCEEDINGS PENDING DISPOSITION OF CASE. Where a writ of certiorari has been perfected under this chapter, it stays all proceedings for the enforcement of the order being reviewed until the case has been finally disposed of either in the supreme court or, where th…

176.511 COSTS. § Subdivision 1.Parties not awarded costs. Except as provided otherwise by this chapter and specifically by this section, in appeals before the court of appeals or proceedings before the division or a compensation judge, costs shall not be awarded to any party. § S…

176.521 SETTLEMENT OF CLAIMS. § Subdivision 1.Validity. (a) An agreement between an employee or an employee's dependent and the employer or insurer to settle any claim for compensation under this chapter is valid where it has been executed in writing and signed by the parties and…

176.522 NOTICE TO EMPLOYER. An employer shall be notified by the insurer 30 days after any final valid settlement is approved or otherwise made final under any provision of this chapter. The notice shall include all terms of the settlement including the total amount of money requ…

176.531 AWARD OF COMPENSATION AGAINST A POLITICAL SUBDIVISION OR SCHOOL DISTRICT. § Subdivision 1.Preferred claim. Where there has been an award of compensation under this chapter to be paid by a political subdivision or a school district, the entitlement of a person to payment u…

176.541 STATE DEPARTMENTS. § Subdivision 1.Application of chapter to state employees. This chapter applies to the employees of any department of this state as defined in section 3.732, subdivision 1, clause (1). § Subd. 2.Defense of claim against state. When the commissioner of a…

176.551 REPORTS. § Subdivision 1.Heads of state departments to report accidents to employees. Except as provided in subdivision 2, the head of a department of the state shall report each accident which occurs to an employee as and in the manner required by this chapter. § Subd. 2…

176.561 WORKERS' COMPENSATION COURT OF APPEALS POWERS AND DUTIES AS TO STATE EMPLOYEES; PROCEDURE FOR DETERMINING LIABILITY. The division, a compensation judge and the Workers' Compensation Court of Appeals have the same powers and duties in matters relating to state employees as…

176.571 INVESTIGATIONS OF INJURIES TO STATE EMPLOYEES. § Subdivision 1.Preliminary investigation. When the head of a department has filed a report or the commissioner of administration has otherwise received information of the occurrence of an injury to a state employee for which…

176.572 CONTRACT WITH INSURANCE CARRIERS. The commissioner of administration may contract with group health insurance carriers or health maintenance organizations to provide health care services and reimburse health care payments for injured state employees entitled to benefits u…

176.581 PAYMENT TO STATE EMPLOYEES. Upon a request prepared by the commissioner of administration, and in accordance with the terms of the order awarding compensation, the commissioner of management and budget shall pay compensation to the employee or the employee's dependent. Th…

176.591 STATE COMPENSATION REVOLVING FUND. § Subdivision 1.Establishment. To facilitate the discharge by the state of its obligations under this chapter, there is established a revolving fund to be known as the state compensation revolving fund. This fund is comprised of the unex…

176.603 COST OF ADMINISTERING CHAPTER, PAYMENT. The annual cost to the commissioner of the Department of Administration of administering this chapter in relation to state employees and the necessary expenses which the Department of Administration or the attorney general incurs in…

176.611 MAINTENANCE OF STATE COMPENSATION REVOLVING FUND. § Subdivision 1.Generally. The state compensation revolving fund shall be maintained as provided in the following subdivisions. § Subd. 2.State departments. Every department of the state shall reimburse the fund for money …

176.645 ADJUSTMENT OF BENEFITS. § Subdivision 1.Amount. For injuries occurring after October 1, 1975, for which benefits are payable under section 176.101, subdivisions 1, 2 and 4, and section 176.111, subdivision 5, the total benefits due the employee or any dependents shall be …

176.651 SEVERABILITY. In case for any reason any paragraph or any provision of this chapter shall be questioned in any court of last resort, and shall be held by such court to be unconstitutional or invalid, the same shall not be held to affect any other paragraph or provision th…

176.66 OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; HOW REGARDED. § Subdivision 1.Disability, disablement. The disablement of an employee resulting from an occupational disease shall be regarded as a personal injury within the meaning of the workers' compensation law. § Subd. 2. [Repealed, 1973 c 643 …

176.80 [Obsolete]

176.82 ACTION FOR CIVIL DAMAGES FOR OBSTRUCTING EMPLOYEE SEEKING BENEFITS. § Subdivision 1.Retaliatory discharge. Any person discharging or threatening to discharge an employee for seeking workers' compensation benefits or in any manner intentionally obstructing an employee seeki…

176.83 RULES. § Subdivision 1.Generally. In addition to any other section under this chapter giving the commissioner the authority to adopt rules, the commissioner may adopt, amend, or repeal rules to implement the provisions of this chapter. The rules include but are not limited…

176.84 SPECIFICITY OF NOTICE OR STATEMENT. § Subdivision 1.Specificity required. Notices of discontinuance and denials of liability shall be sufficiently specific to convey clearly, without further inquiry, the basis upon which the party issuing the notice or statement is acting.…

176.85 PENALTIES; APPEALS. § Subdivision 1.Appeal procedure. If the commissioner has assessed a penalty against a party subject to this chapter and the party believes the penalty is not warranted, the party may request that a formal hearing be held on the matter. The request must…

176.861 DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION. § Subdivision 1.Insurance information. The commissioner may, in writing, require an insurance company to release to the commissioner any or all relevant information or evidence the commissioner deems important which the company may have in its p…

176.862 DISCLOSURE TO LAW ENFORCEMENT. The commissioner must disclose the current address of an employee collected or maintained under this chapter to law enforcement officers who provide the name of the employee and notify the commissioner that the employee is a person required …

176.87 EMPLOYEES CONTRACTING TUBERCULOSIS TO RECEIVE MEDICAL CARE AND COMPENSATION. Any sanitarium, medical laboratories or institutional employee of the state or of any county or other subdivision of the state, or any duly licensed nurse employed by the state or by any county, c…

176.871 REPORT OF ILLNESS OF EMPLOYEE, HEARING ON CLAIM. Whenever the superintendent of any state, county or city sanitarium, medical laboratories or other institution, or the head of any department of the state or of any county, city, nursing district or other subdivision of the…

176.872 FINDINGS, PAYMENT OF MEDICAL CARE AND COMPENSATION. § Subdivision 1.Duty to seek treatment. If upon the evidence mentioned in section 176.871, the workers' compensation division finds that an employee is suffering from tuberculosis contracted in the institution or departm…

176.873 APPLICATION TO CERTAIN CASES. Laws 1949, chapter 558, shall not be construed to apply in the case of employees known to have had tuberculosis as demonstrated by tuberculous lesions of the adult type or by demonstration of the germs of tuberculosis in such employee's secre…

176.874 POLICE OFFICERS CONTRACTING TUBERCULOSIS. Any police officer of the state or of any county or municipal subdivision of the state whose duties within the scope of employment as a police officer bring or did bring the officer in contact with persons afflicted with tuberculo…

176.875 REPORT OF ILLNESS. Whenever the head of any state, county or city police department learns that any police officer employed by such department whose duties bring or did bring the employee in contact with any person suffering from tuberculosis while said police officer was…

176.876 OFFICERS ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL; PAYMENTS. If upon the evidence mentioned in section 176.875, the Workers' Compensation Division finds that a police officer is suffering from tuberculosis contracted by contact with persons suffering from tuberculosis while the police office…