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Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 616C — Industrial Insurance: Benefits for Injuries or Death

Nevada · statute · Nev. Rev. Stat. ch. 616C · 151 active provisions

151 active provisions.

Nev. Rev. Stat. § 616C.005

Forms for reporting injuries: Insurer to distribute revised forms to employers periodically; Administrator to make revised forms available to physicians, chiropractic physicians, physician assistants and advanced practice registered nurses

On or before September 1 of each year: 1. An insurer shall distribute to each employer that it insures any form for reporting injuries that has been revised within the previous 12 months. 2. The Administrator shall make available to physicians, chiropractic physicians, physician assistants and advanced practice registe…

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Nev. Rev. Stat. § 616C.010

Employee to report accident and injury to employer; examination of employee; professional employer organization to provide to leased employees instructions regarding reporting of injuries

1. Whenever any accident occurs to any employee, the employee shall forthwith report the accident and the injury resulting therefrom to his or her employer. 2. When an employer learns of an accident, whether or not it is reported, the employer may direct the employee to submit to, or the employee may request, an examin…

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Nev. Rev. Stat. § 616C.015

Notice of injury or death: Requirements; availability of form; retention; notice by leased employee

1. An employee or, in the event of the employee’s death, one of the dependents of the employee, shall provide written notice of an injury that arose out of and in the course of employment to the employer of the employee as soon as practicable, but within 7 days after the accident. 2. The notice required by subsection 1…

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Nev. Rev. Stat. § 616C.020

Claim for compensation: Requirements for injured employee, dependent or representative to file claim; form

1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, an injured employee, or a person acting on behalf of the employee, shall file a claim for compensation with the insurer within 90 days after an accident if: (a) The employee has sought medical treatment for an injury arising out of and in the course of his or her employm…

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Nev. Rev. Stat. § 616C.025

Recovery of compensation barred if notice of injury or claim for compensation is not filed; exceptions

1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, an employee or, in the event of the death of the employee, a dependent of the employee, is barred from recovering compensation pursuant to the provisions of chapters 616A to 616D, inclusive, of NRS if the employee or dependent, as applicable, fails to file a notice of in…

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Nev. Rev. Stat. § 616C.030

Dependent of injured employee barred from filing claim for compensation if untimely or previously denied

A dependent of an injured employee may not file a claim for compensation for an industrial injury pursuant to the provisions of chapters 616A to 616D, inclusive, of NRS if: 1. The time for filing the claim has expired pursuant to NRS 616C.020 and the failure to file the claim is not excused pursuant to NRS 616C.025; or…

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Nev. Rev. Stat. § 616C.040

Claim for compensation: Duty of treating physician, chiropractic physician, physician assistant or advanced practice registered nurse to file or delegate duty; electronic filing; form and contents; provision of completed form to injured employee; maintenance of forms; penalty

1. Except as otherwise provided in this section, a treating physician, chiropractic physician, physician assistant or advanced practice registered nurse shall, within 3 working days after first providing treatment to an injured employee for a particular injury, complete and file a claim for compensation with the employ…

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Nev. Rev. Stat. § 616C.045

Report of industrial injury or occupational disease: Duty of employer to file; electronic filing; form and contents; penalty

1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 616B.727, within 6 working days after the receipt of a claim for compensation from a physician, chiropractic physician, physician assistant or advanced practice registered nurse, or a medical facility if the duty to file the claim for compensation has been delegated to the medical…

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Nev. Rev. Stat. § 616C.052

Exposure of police officer, firefighter or arson investigator to contagious disease: Reporting and testing requirements; eligibility for compensation

1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 617.485 and 617.487, if a police officer, a salaried or volunteer firefighter or an arson investigator is exposed to a contagious disease: (a) Upon battery by an offender; or (b) While performing the duties of a police officer, firefighter or arson investigator, Ê the employer of…

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Nev. Rev. Stat. § 616C.055

Use of fee schedules which unfairly discriminate among physicians and chiropractic physicians prohibited; payment for services rendered by physician or chiropractic physician after removal from panel prohibited

1. The insurer may not, in accepting responsibility for any charges, use fee schedules which unfairly discriminate among physicians and chiropractic physicians. 2. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 616C.087, if a physician or chiropractic physician is removed from the panel established pursuant to NRS 616C.090 or fro…

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Nev. Rev. Stat. § 616C.065

Duty of insurer to accept or deny claim; new determination; penalty; failure of insurer to indicate acceptance or denial of claim; written determination

1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 616C.136, within 30 days after the insurer has been notified of an industrial accident, every insurer shall: (a) Accept a claim for compensation, notify the claimant or the person acting on behalf of the claimant that the claim has been accepted and commence payment of the claim;…

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Nev. Rev. Stat. § 616C.070

Persons who are conclusively presumed to be totally dependent on injured or deceased employee; exception

1. A person is conclusively presumed to be totally dependent upon an injured or deceased employee if: (a) The person is a natural, posthumous or adopted child, whether legitimate or illegitimate, under the age of 18 years; or (b) The person is a natural, posthumous or adopted child, there is no surviving parent and the…

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Nev. Rev. Stat. § 616C.087

Selection of physician or chiropractic physician: Legislative declaration regarding rights of injured employee; requirements for lists maintained and updated by Administrator and insurer; duties of Administrator; removal of physician or chiropractic physician from insurer’s list; continuation of treatment with same physician or chiropractic physician under certain circumstances; regulations prescribing form for employer’s list of physicians and chiropractic physicians

1. The Legislature hereby declares that: (a) The choice of a treating physician or chiropractic physician is a substantive right and substantive benefit of an injured employee who has a claim under the Nevada Industrial Insurance Act or the Nevada Occupational Diseases Act. (b) The injured employees of this State have…

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Nev. Rev. Stat. § 616C.090

Selection of physician or chiropractic physician: Establishment, maintenance and update of panel of physicians and chiropractic physicians; powers and duties of Administrator; selection and alternate selection from established panel or pursuant to contract; responsibility for charges not in compliance with provisions or related to improper treatments; procedure for removing from panel physicians and chiropractic physicians who do not treat injured employees

1. The Administrator shall establish, maintain and update not less frequently than annually on or before July 1 of each year, a panel of physicians and chiropractic physicians who have demonstrated special competence and interest in industrial health to treat injured employees under chapters 616A to 616D, inclusive, or…

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Nev. Rev. Stat. § 616C.091

Selection of physician or chiropractic physician: Injured employee choice of physician to treat certain occupational diseases under certain circumstances; payment for treatment; reimbursement of payment; penalty for failure to reimburse within required time

1. If an injured employee has filed a claim pursuant to NRS 617.455 or 617.457 and, at the time the claim is filed, the panel of physicians or chiropractic physicians maintained by the Administrator pursuant to NRS 616C.090 contains fewer than 12 physicians or chiropractic physicians in a discipline or specialization a…

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Nev. Rev. Stat. § 616C.092

Administrator to publish quarterly report of rating physicians and chiropractic physicians who conduct certain examinations or evaluations of injured employees; retention of archive of reports

1. The Administrator shall, not later than 30 days after the end of each calendar quarter, publish and make publicly available on the Internet website of the Division a report containing: (a) The name of each rating physician or chiropractic physician, listed in alphabetical order by last name, who conducted an examina…

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Nev. Rev. Stat. § 616C.095

Duty of physician, chiropractic physician, physician assistant or advanced practice registered nurse to advise injured employee of rights

1. The physician, chiropractic physician, physician assistant or advanced practice registered nurse shall inform the injured employee of the injured employee’s rights under chapters 616A to 616D, inclusive, or chapter 617 of NRS and lend all necessary assistance in making application for compensation and such proof of…

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Nev. Rev. Stat. § 616C.098

Use by physician, chiropractic physician, physician assistant or advanced practice registered nurse of certain phrases relating to causation of industrial injury or occupational disease

1. Certain phrases relating to a claim for compensation for an industrial injury or occupational disease and used by a physician, chiropractic physician, physician assistant or advanced practice registered nurse when determining the causation of an industrial injury or occupational disease are deemed to be equivalent a…

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Nev. Rev. Stat. § 616C.099

Rating of disability for subsequent injury; required proof to reduce percentage of present disability; required forms of evidence; lack of documentary evidence

1. If a rating evaluation was completed for a previous disability involving a condition, occupational disease, organ, anatomical structure or other part of the body that is identical to the condition, occupational disease, organ, anatomical structure or other part of the body being evaluated for the present disability,…

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Nev. Rev. Stat. § 616C.100

Additional determination of percentage of disability permitted if cost paid by injured employee; authority of injured employee to seek reimbursement of cost; results of determination may be offered at hearing or conference

1. If an injured employee disagrees with the percentage of disability determined by a physician or chiropractic physician, the injured employee may obtain a second determination of the percentage of disability. If the employee wishes to obtain such a determination, the employee must select the physician or chiropractic…

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Nev. Rev. Stat. § 616C.105

Requirements for designation of chiropractic physician to rate permanent partial disabilities

The Administrator shall not designate a chiropractic physician to rate permanent partial disabilities unless the chiropractic physician has completed an advanced program of training in rating disabilities using the American Medical Association’s Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment which is offered or appro…

NevadaIndustrial Insurance: Benefits for Injuries or Deatheffective