Title 28, Title 28 and Labor Relations

If any certified employer or insurer fails to file a return within the time and as required in this chapter, the director shall determine the amount of payment due from any information that he or she may obtain.

The director may grant a reasonable extension of time for filing any return required under this chapter. Whenever an extension of time is granted the insurer shall be required to pay, as part of any payment due, interest on the amount at the rate of one percent (1%) per month fro…

If any payment required of any insurer or certified employer by this chapter is not made when due, the insurer or the certified employer shall be required to pay, as part of that payment, interest on it at the rate of one percent (1%) per month from the due date.

(a) If the director or any appellate tribunal determines after a hearing that any insurer has failed to make any payment required by this chapter or has violated any of the provisions of this chapter, that insurer shall not write or renew workers’ compensation insurance or employ…

If any certified employer violates any of the provisions of this chapter or any of the rules or regulations promulgated by the director of labor and training, the director of labor and training may suspend the privilege of that certified employer to make workers’ compensation pay…

If any insurer or certified employer willfully delivers or causes to be delivered to the director any false or fraudulent return or information upon which the payment due under this chapter is based, the director shall add to the total payment due fifty per cent (50%) of the amou…

The director shall collect all payments under this chapter under the rules and regulations that may be set forth by the director, and all payments shall immediately be transmitted by the director to the general treasurer.

All actions for any violations of this chapter or of any of the rules or regulations promulgated by the director, or for the collection of payments in accordance with § 28-37-13 or § 28-53-9 or other penalties under this chapter, shall be prosecuted by any qualified member of the…

If any provisions of this chapter, or their application to any person or circumstances, is held invalid, the remainder of this chapter and application of those provisions to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected by that invalidity.

The general treasurer as custodian of this fund is authorized to invest any moneys not immediately necessary for the execution of the purposes of this fund in the class of securities legal for the investment of public moneys of this state; provided, that the investment shall at a…

(a) Payments made to injured employees pursuant to § 28-37-8 shall be increased effective May 10 of each year by an amount equal to the total percentage increase in the most recently published annual consumer price index, United States city average for urban wage earners and cler…

(a)(1) Recognizing the need for collection, analysis, and utilization of quantifiable data to provide the basis for recommendations to improve the efficiency and reduce the cost of the workers’ compensation system, the director of the department of labor and training will be resp…

Any party claiming to be entitled to the benefits of this chapter or § 28-35-20 shall file a request with the director for a determination of his or her claim. If the director denies the claim, the party may file a petition at the workers’ compensation court that shall follow the…

When death occurs, all compensation payments from the workers’ compensation administrative fund shall cease; provided, that if it is proved that the death resulted from the last compensable injury the employer shall not be relieved of liability as provided in chapter 33 of this t…

In addition to any other payments authorized to be made from the fund established under § 28-37-1, payments from the fund shall be made for the continuance of compensation and medical expenses at his or her prevailing rate to any employee who subsequent to January 1, 1940, has su…

The payments provided for under § 28-37-8 shall be made by the insurance carriers or certified employers and they shall be reimbursed out of the fund established by § 28-37-1 after furnishing the director a quarterly statement setting forth the names and addresses of the injured …

From the fund created by § 28-37-1 the Chief Judge Robert F. Arrigan rehabilitation center shall be set up within the department of labor and training.

The director shall appoint an administrator of the center. The administrator shall appoint all medical and technical personnel and an administrative assistant of the center if this is necessary, with the advice and approval of the director, under the rules of civil service. Cleri…

(a) The rules and regulations, including manner of admission to the center for treatment, and prices to be charged for treatments, shall be promulgated by the administrator appointed under § 28-38-20 and upon review and approval by the director. (b) Any state employee, receiving …

If any provisions of this chapter, or their application to any person or circumstances, is held invalid, the remainder of this chapter and the application of those provisions to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected by that invalidity.

The name of the curative centre in the department shall be the Chief Judge Robert F. Arrigan rehabilitation center.

Wherever in any existing law reference is made to the curative centre, and wherever in an existing law the term “state curative centre” or “curative centre” or “the centre,” “the Donley Center” or “the Dr. John E. Donley rehabilitation center,” as variously used, refers to the cu…

The change in name pursuant to § 28-38-24 shall in no way affect the powers and duties of the director or the administrator; and those officials shall be responsible for the control, management, and operation of the Chief Judge Robert F. Arrigan rehabilitation center in the same …

Chapters 39 — 41 of this title shall be known and may be cited as the “Rhode Island Temporary Disability Insurance Act.”

Chapters 39 — 41 of this title shall be administered by the department of labor and training. The director and the board of review shall have the same powers and duties with relation to those chapters as they have to chapters 42 — 44 of this title.

(a) Whenever the director believes that a change in contribution and/or benefit rates shall become necessary to protect the solvency of the fund, he or she shall at once inform the governor and the general assembly of this and make recommendations accordingly. (b) In that case th…

The director may require any benefit claimant to submit to a reasonable examination or examinations for the purpose of determining his or her physical or mental condition, the examination or examinations to be conducted by a qualified healthcare provider appointed by the director…

On the request of the director or the board of review, the attorney general shall represent the director or the board of review and the state in any court action relating to chapters 39 — 41 of this title or their administration and enforcement, except as special counsel may be d…

Every employer and every employing unit employing any person in employment in this state shall keep true and accurate employment records of all persons employed by the employer and employing unit, and of the weekly hours worked for the employer and employing unit by each, and of …

The manner in which any disputed claims or any other controversies arising out of the interpretation or application of chapters 39 — 41 of this title are presented, or the manner in which hearings and appeals are conducted, shall be in accordance with the prescribed regulations, …

In case of contumacy by, or refusal to obey a subpoena issued to, any person, pursuant to chapters 39 — 41 of this title, the sixth division of the district court, upon application by the director or the board of review, shall have jurisdiction to issue to that person an order re…

Witnesses subpoenaed pursuant to chapters 39 — 41 of this title shall be allowed fees at a rate fixed by the director. Those fees shall be deemed a part of the expense of administering chapters 39 — 41 of this title.

The director or the board of review shall be deemed to be a party to any judicial action involving decisions which have been appealed to the courts and may be represented in any judicial action by any qualified attorney designated by him, her, or it for that purpose, or at his, h…

Every employee of the department of labor and training is expressly prohibited from divulging to any individual not officially connected with the department: (1) Any information obtained by the employee in the regular course of duty, or from the records and reports of employing u…

The following words and phrases, as used in chapters 39 — 41 of this title, have the following meanings unless the context clearly requires otherwise: (1) “Average weekly wage” means the amount determined by dividing the individual’s total wages earned for services performed in e…

Every request for information relating to the data referred to in § 28-39-19 shall be denied, and the individual making that request shall be informed that all requests for information must be directed to the director.

Every request for information directed to the director shall be denied if the request would necessitate that individual to divulge any information that is declared in § 28-42-38 to be held confidential by the director.

Notwithstanding § 28-39-21, the director is authorized to divulge the information confidentially held by the department to the agencies enumerated in § 28-42-38 as proper agencies entitled to access to that information relating to the administration of temporary disability insura…

Whoever knowingly makes a false statement or representation to obtain or increase any benefit or other payment under chapters 39 — 41 of this title, either for himself or herself or for any other person, shall upon conviction be punished by a fine of not less than twenty dollars …

Any individual, or employing unit or its agent, who or that willfully makes a false statement or representation to avoid becoming or remaining subject thereto, or to avoid or reduce any contribution or other payment required of an employing unit under chapters 39 — 41 of this tit…

Any individual, or employing unit or its agent, who or that knowingly fails or refuses to make any contribution or other payment required of an employing unit under chapters 39 — 41 of this title, or who or that knowingly fails or refuses to make any contribution or report at the…

An employer who fails to file any report required under chapters 39 — 41 of this title, or who or that fails or refuses to pay any contributions required under those chapters in the manner and at the times required by the laws and regulations or as the director may, in accordance…

Any violation of any provision of chapters 39 — 41 of this title or of any order, rule, or regulation of the department for which a penalty is neither prescribed above nor provided by any other applicable statute, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty dollars ($20.0…

All fines specified or provided for in §§ 28-39-23 — 28-39-27 shall be paid to the temporary disability insurance reserve fund.

Any individual who, by reason of a mistake or misrepresentation made by himself or herself or another, has received any sum as benefits under chapters 39 — 41 of this title, in any week in which any condition for the receipt of those benefits imposed by those chapters was not ful…

Governmental entities as defined in § 28-42-3 shall not be deemed to be employing units subject to chapters 39 — 41 of this title and services performed in the employ of those governmental entities shall not be deemed to be employment subject to those chapters; provided, that cer…