Title Minnesota Statutes, Minnesota Statutes

176.141 NOTICE OF INJURY. Unless the employer has actual knowledge of the occurrence of the injury or unless the injured worker, or a dependent or someone in behalf of either, gives written notice thereof to the employer within 14 days after the occurrence of the injury, then no …

176.145 SERVICE OF NOTICE, FORM. The notice referred to in section 176.141 may be served personally upon the employer, or upon any agent of the employer upon whom a summons may be served in a civil action, or by sending it by certified mail to the employer at the last known resid…

176.151 TIME LIMITATIONS. The time within which the following acts shall be performed shall be limited to the following periods, respectively: (a) Actions or proceedings by an injured employee to determine or recover compensation, three years after a written report of the injury …

176.155 EXAMINATIONS. § Subdivision 1.Employer's physician. (a) The injured employee must submit to examination by the employer's physician, if requested by the employer, and at reasonable times thereafter upon the employer's request. Examinations shall not be conducted in hotel …

176.161 ALIEN DEPENDENTS. § Subdivision 1.Residing outside United States. In case a deceased employee for whose injury or death compensation is payable leaves surviving an alien dependent residing outside the United States the commissioner shall direct the payment of all compensa…

176.165 LUMP-SUM PAYMENTS. The amounts of compensation payable periodically may be commuted to one or more lump-sum payments only by order of the commissioner of the Department of Labor and Industry, compensation judge, or Workers' Compensation Court of Appeals in cases upon appe…

176.171 PAYMENT TO TRUSTEE. At any time after the amount of any award or commutation is finally determined, a sum equal to the present value of all future installments of the compensation, calculated on a five percent basis, where death or the nature of the injury renders the amo…

176.175 RIGHT TO COMPENSATION, AWARD. § Subdivision 1.Preferred claim. The right to compensation and all compensation awarded any injured employee or for death claims to dependents have the same preference against the assets of the employer as unpaid wages for labor. This compens…

176.178 FRAUD. § Subdivision 1.Intent. Any person who, with intent to defraud, receives workers' compensation benefits to which the person is not entitled by knowingly misrepresenting, misstating, or failing to disclose any material fact is guilty of theft and shall be sentenced …

176.179 RECOVERY OF OVERPAYMENTS. Notwithstanding section 176.521, subdivision 3, or any other provision of this chapter to the contrary, except as provided in this section, no lump-sum or weekly payment, or settlement, which is voluntarily paid to an injured employee or the surv…

176.181 INSURANCE. § Subdivision 1.Authorization. Any employer responsible for compensation may insure the risk in any manner authorized by law. § Subd. 2.Compulsory insurance; self-insurers. (a) Every employer, except the state and its municipal subdivisions, liable under this c…

176.1812 COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENTS. § Subdivision 1.Requirements. Upon appropriate filing, the commissioner, compensation judge, Workers' Compensation Court of Appeals, and courts shall recognize as valid and binding a provision in a collective bargaining agreement between…

176.182 BUSINESS LICENSES OR PERMITS; COVERAGE REQUIRED. Every state or local licensing agency shall withhold the issuance or renewal of a license or permit to operate a business in Minnesota until the applicant presents acceptable evidence of compliance with the workers' compens…

176.183 UNINSURED AND SELF-INSURED EMPLOYERS; BENEFITS TO EMPLOYEES AND DEPENDENTS; LIABILITY OF EMPLOYER. § Subdivision 1.Uninsured and self-insured employers; special compensation fund. When any employee sustains an injury arising out of and in the course of employment while in…

176.184 INSPECTIONS; ENFORCEMENT. § Subdivision 1.Proof of insurance. The commissioner of labor and industry, in order to carry out the purpose of section 176.181, may request satisfactory proof of authority to self-insure workers' compensation liability or satisfactory proof of …

176.185 POLICY OF INSURANCE. § Subdivision 1.Notice of coverage; notice to insured before policy cancellation, termination or nonrenewal. Within ten days after the issuance or renewal of a policy of insurance covering the liability to pay compensation under this chapter written b…

176.186 RECORDS FROM OTHER STATE AGENCIES. Notwithstanding any other state law to the contrary except chapter 270B, the commissioner may obtain from the Department of Employment and Economic Development, and Office of the Secretary of State, or any other state agency, upon reques…

176.191 DISPUTE BETWEEN TWO OR MORE EMPLOYERS OR INSURERS REGARDING LIABILITY. § Subdivision 1.Order; employer, insurer, or special compensation fund payment. Where compensation benefits are payable under this chapter, and a dispute exists between two or more employers or two or …

176.192 BOMB DISPOSAL UNIT EMPLOYEES. For purposes of this chapter, a member of a bomb disposal unit approved by the commissioner of public safety and employed by a municipality defined in section 466.01, is considered an employee of the Department of Public Safety solely for the…

176.194 PROHIBITED PRACTICES. § Subdivision 1.Application. This section applies to insurers, self-insurers, group self-insurers, political subdivisions of the state, and the administrator of state employees' claims. This section also applies to adjusters and third-party administr…

176.195 REVOCATION OF INSURER'S LICENSE. § Subdivision 1.Grounds. Where an insurer, or an agent of an insurer, has been guilty of fraud, misrepresentation, or culpable, persistent, and unreasonable delay in making payments or settlements under this chapter, the commissioner of co…

176.201 DISCRIMINATORY RATES. § Subdivision 1.Physically disabled persons. An insurer, or an agent or employee of an insurer, shall not make or charge a rate which discriminates against the employment of a person who is physically disabled through the loss or loss of use of a mem…

176.205 PERSON DEEMED EMPLOYER. § Subdivision 1.Fraudulent device to evade responsibility to worker. Subject to subdivision 2, a person who creates or executes any fraudulent scheme, artifice, or device to enable the person to execute work without being responsible to the worker …

176.211 ACTS OR OMISSIONS OF THIRD PERSONS. Except as provided by this chapter the employer need not pay compensation for injuries due to the acts or omissions of third persons who are at the time neither in the service of the employer nor engaged in the work in which the injury …

176.215 SUBCONTRACTOR'S FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH CHAPTER. § Subdivision 1.Liability for payment of compensation. Where a subcontractor fails to comply with this chapter, the general contractor, or intermediate contractor, or subcontractor is liable for payment of all compensation d…

176.221 PAYMENT OF COMPENSATION AND TREATMENT CHARGES, COMMENCEMENT. § Subdivision 1.Commencement of payment. Within 14 days of notice to or knowledge by the employer of an injury compensable under this chapter the payment of temporary total compensation shall commence. Within 14…

176.222 REPORT ON COLLECTION AND ASSESSMENT OF FINES AND PENALTIES. The commissioner shall annually, by January 30, submit a report to the legislature detailing the assessment and collection of fines and penalties under this chapter on a fiscal year basis for the immediately prec…

176.225 ADDITIONAL AWARD AS PENALTY. § Subdivision 1.Grounds. Upon reasonable notice and hearing or opportunity to be heard, the commissioner, a compensation judge, or upon appeal, the court of appeals or the supreme court shall award compensation, in addition to the total amount…

176.231 REPORT OF DEATH OR INJURY TO COMMISSIONER OF DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRY. § Subdivision 1.Time limitation. (a) Where death or serious injury occurs to an employee during the course of employment, the employer shall report the injury or death to the commissioner and i…

176.234 RELEASE OF DATA FOR EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDY. The commissioner of the Department of Labor and Industry shall, upon request, provide the commissioner of health data classified as private data under section 13.02, subdivision 12, which are contained in the initial report of inju…

176.235 NOTICE TO EMPLOYERS AND INJURED EMPLOYEE OF RIGHTS AND DUTIES. § Subdivision 1.Employee brochure. When the commissioner of labor and industry has received notice or information that an employee has sustained an injury which may be compensable under this chapter, the commi…

176.238 NOTICE OF DISCONTINUANCE OF COMPENSATION. § Subdivision 1.Necessity for notice and showing; contents. Except as provided in section 176.221, subdivision 1, once the employer or insurer has commenced payment of benefits, the employer may not discontinue payment of compensa…

176.239 ADMINISTRATIVE DECISION CONCERNING DISCONTINUANCE OF COMPENSATION. § Subdivision 1.Purpose. The purpose of this section is to provide a procedure for parties to obtain an expedited interim administrative decision in disputes over discontinuance of temporary total, tempora…

176.245 RECEIPTS FOR PAYMENT OF COMPENSATION, FILING. An employer shall promptly file with the division receipts for payment of compensation as may be required by the rules of the division. The commissioner of the Department of Labor and Industry shall periodically check its reco…

176.251 DUTIES OF COMMISSIONER OF DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRY. The commissioner of the Department of Labor and Industry shall actually supervise and require prompt and full compliance with all provisions of this chapter relating to the payment of compensation. History: 1953 …

176.253 INSURER, EMPLOYER, AND THIRD-PARTY ADMINISTRATOR; PERFORMANCE OF ACTS. § Subdivision 1.Definitions. (a) The terms used in this section have the meanings given to them in this subdivision. (b) "Department" has the meaning in section 176.011, subdivision 8b. (c) "Employer" …

176.261 EMPLOYEE OF COMMISSIONER OF DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRY MAY ACT FOR AND ADVISE A PARTY TO A PROCEEDING. When requested by an employer or an employee or an employee's dependent, the commissioner of the Department of Labor and Industry may designate one or more of the …

176.2611 COORDINATION OF THE OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATIVE HEARINGS' CASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND THE WORKERS' COMPENSATION IMAGING SYSTEM. § Subdivision 1.Definitions. (a) For purposes of this section, the definitions in this subdivision apply unless otherwise specified. (b) "Commissio…

176.2612 WORKERS' COMPENSATION CLAIMS ACCESS AND MANAGEMENT PLATFORM USER SYSTEM (CAMPUS). § Subdivision 1.Requirements. (a) The commissioner shall maintain the workers' compensation Claims Access and Management Platform User System (CAMPUS) as defined in section 176.011, subdivi…

176.271 INITIATION OF PROCEEDINGS. § Subdivision 1.Written petition. Unless otherwise provided by this chapter or by the commissioner, all proceedings under this chapter are initiated by the filing of a written petition on a prescribed form with the department or office. All clai…

176.275 FILING OF PAPERS; PROOF OF SERVICE. § Subdivision 1.Filing. If a document is required to be filed by this chapter or any rules adopted pursuant to authority granted by this chapter, the filing shall be completed upon acceptance of the document by the agency. Any document …

176.281 ORDERS, DECISIONS, AND AWARDS; FILING; SERVICE. (a) When the commissioner or compensation judge or Office of Administrative Hearings or the Workers' Compensation Court of Appeals has issued correspondence, a notice, order, decision, award, or other disposition or outcome …

176.285 SERVICE OF PAPERS AND NOTICES; ELECTRONIC FILING. § Subdivision 1.Service by mail. Service of documents shall be by first class United States mail or personal service, except where electronic service is authorized or required under this section and section 176.275. An emp…

176.291 DISPUTES; PETITIONS; PROCEDURE. (a) Where there is a dispute as to a question of law or fact in connection with a claim for compensation, a party may serve on all other parties and file a petition with the office stating the matter in dispute. The petition shall be on a f…

176.295 NONRESIDENT EMPLOYERS; FOREIGN CORPORATION. § Subdivision 1.Affidavit of inability to effectuate service. Where a petitioner, an employee, or an employee's dependent cannot serve a petition for compensation or other notice on an employer because the employer is a nonresid…

176.301 DETERMINATION OF ISSUES. § Subdivision 1.Trial by court; reference to chief administrative law judge. When a workers' compensation issue is present in the district court action, the court may try the action itself without a jury, or refer the matter to the chief administr…