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RCWs > Title 51 > Chapter 51.32

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Chapter 51.32 RCW

Compensation — right to and amount

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RCW Sections

51.32.010	Who entitled to compensation.
51.32.015	Time and place of coverage -- Lunch period.
51.32.020	Who not entitled to compensation.
51.32.025	Payments for children cease at age eighteen -- Exceptions.
51.32.030	When compensation payable to employer or member of corporate employer.
51.32.040	Protection of awards -- Payment after death -- Time limitations for filing -- Confinement in institution.
51.32.045	Direct deposit of benefits.
51.32.050	Death benefits.
51.32.055	Determination of permanent disabilities -- Closure of claims by self-insurers.
51.32.060	Permanent total disability compensation -- Personal attendant.
51.32.067	Permanent total disability -- Death benefit options -- Election.
51.32.072	Additional payments for prior pensioners -- Children -- Remarriage -- Attendant.
51.32.073	Additional payments for prior pensioners -- Premium liability of worker and employer for additional payments.
51.32.075	Adjustments in compensation or death benefits.
51.32.080	Permanent partial disability -- Specified -- Unspecified, rules for classification -- Injury after permanent partial disability.
51.32.090	Temporary total disability -- Partial restoration of earning power -- Return to available work -- When employer continues wages -- Limitations.
51.32.095	Vocational rehabilitation services -- Benefits -- Priorities -- Allowable costs -- Performance criteria.
51.32.098	Vocational rehabilitation services -- Applicability.
51.32.099	Vocational rehabilitation pilot program -- Vocational plans.
51.32.0991	Vocational services and plans -- Costs -- Medical aid fund expenses.
51.32.100	Preexisting disease.
51.32.110	Medical examination -- Refusal to submit -- Traveling expenses -- Pay for time lost.
51.32.112	Medical examination -- Standards and criteria -- Special examinations by chiropractors--Compensation guidelines and reporting criteria.
51.32.114	Medical examination -- Department to monitor quality and objectivity.
51.32.120	Further accident after lump sum payment.
51.32.130	Lump sum for death or permanent total disability.
51.32.135	Closing of claim in pension cases -- Consent of spouse.
51.32.140	Nonresident alien beneficiary.
51.32.150	Lump sum to beneficiary outside state.
51.32.160	Aggravation, diminution, or termination.
51.32.180	Occupational diseases -- Limitation.
51.32.185	Occupational diseases -- Presumption of occupational disease for firefighters -- Limitations -- Exception -- Rules.
51.32.190	Self-insurers -- Notice of denial of claim, reasons -- Procedure -- Powers and duties of director.
51.32.195	Self-insurers -- Information to department.
51.32.200	Self-insurers -- Enforcement of compensation order against.
51.32.210	Claims of injured workers, prompt action -- Payment -- Acceptance -- Effect.
51.32.215	Payment of compensation after appeal -- Enforcement of order -- Penalty.
51.32.220	Reduction in total disability compensation -- Limitations -- Notice -- Waiver--Adjustment for retroactive reduction in federal social security disability benefit -- Restrictions.
51.32.225	Reduction in total disability compensation -- Offset for social security retirement benefits.
51.32.230	Recovery of overpayments.
51.32.240	Erroneous payments -- Payments induced by willful misrepresentation -- Adjustment for self-insurer's failure to pay benefits -- Recoupment of overpayments by self-insurer -- Penalty -- Appeal -- Enforcement of orders.
51.32.242	Self-insured employer overpayment reimbursement fund -- Withholding from worker earnings -- Use of funds -- Exception.
51.32.250	Payment of job modification costs.
51.32.260	Compensation for loss or damage to personal effects.
51.32.300	State employee vocational rehabilitation coordinator.
51.32.350	Chemically related illness -- Criteria and procedures for claims -- Claims management.
51.32.360	Chemically related illness -- Centers for research and clinical assessment.
51.32.370	Chemically related illness -- Research projects -- Implementation plan -- Funding -- Deductions from employees' pay.
51.32.380	Injured offenders -- Benefits sent in the care of the department of corrections -- Exception -- Liability.

Notes:

Self-insured employer overpayment reimbursement fund: RCW 51.44.142.

Victims of crimes, benefits: Chapter 7.68 RCW.