Title 42, Workers' Compensation

The medical board employed to determine controverted medical questions shall consist of three members appointed by the commission or hearing commissioner and selected from the medical advisory panel as follows: one to be named by the claimant and one to be named by the employer o…

The fees and expenses of the medical board shall be charged in accordance with a schedule adopted by the commission upon the advice and recommendations of the medical advisory panel and such fees and expenses, along with such clinical and X-ray expenses as the medical board may r…

The medical board, upon referral to it of a medical question, shall notify the claimant and the employer or its insurer, as the case may be, to appear before the board at a time and place stated in the notice and shall examine the employee, if living, and may examine the body of …

The decisions and award in the case shall conform to the findings and conclusions in such report insofar as it is restricted to medical questions, except that either party may, within ten days after receipt of a copy of the report, file written objection thereto with the commissi…

The medical board shall be chosen from the medical advisory panel, composed of medical experts appointed by the Governor who shall be chosen from a list submitted by the executive committee of the South Carolina Medical Association, which list shall be approved by the Workers' Co…

Members of the medical advisory panel shall receive no compensation save that provided when they serve on a medical board. But when the panel is convened to give its advice and recommendations to the commission, the members participating therein shall receive per diem allowances …

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 42-11-120, in lieu of a medical panel in claims involving occupationally related diseases, at the election of either party or the hearing commissioner, the claimant shall be referred to a medical doctor or doctors who diagnose or treat oc…

The commission may, upon the advice and recommendations of the medical advisory panel: (1) Make reasonable regulations regarding the conduct of hearings and investigations by medical boards and the fees and expenses to be allowed members of the panel for serving on such boards fr…

As used in this chapter, "disablement" means the event of an employee's becoming actually incapacitated, partially or totally, because of an occupational disease, from performing his work in the last occupation in which injuriously exposed to the hazards of such disease, "partial…

Either employer or employee may reject the provisions of this chapter under the same terms and conditions as he may reject the other provisions of this title.

(A) Notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter, for purposes of the South Carolina Workers' Compensation Law, any impairment or injury to the health of a firefighter caused by heart disease or respiratory disease resulting in total or partial disability or death is presumed t…

When employer and employee are subject to the provisions of this title, the disablement or death of an employee resulting from an occupational disease shall be treated as an injury by accident and the employee, or in case of death his dependents, shall be entitled to compensation…

When an employee suffers disability from an occupational disease and also from an injury which is otherwise compensable under this title, he shall not be entitled to receive compensation for both and benefits payable shall be limited to the cause which results in the longest peri…

No compensation shall be payable for any pulmonary disease arising out of the inhalation of organic or inorganic dust or fumes unless the claimant suffers disability as described in Section 42-9-10 or Section 42-9-20 and shall not be compensable under Section 42-9-30; provided, h…

Neither an employee nor his dependents shall be entitled to compensation for disability or death from an occupational disease, except that due to exposure to ionizing radiation, unless such disease was contracted within one year after the last exposure to the hazard peculiar to h…

If an employee, at the time of his employment, wilfully and falsely represents in writing that he has not previously suffered from the disease which is the cause of disability or death, no compensation shall be payable. If an employee who has previously suffered from an occupatio…

When an occupational disease prolongs, accelerates or aggravates or is prolonged, accelerated or aggravated by any other cause or infirmity not otherwise compensable, the compensation payable for disability or death shall be limited to the disability which would have resulted sol…