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NH Rev Stat § 281-A:26 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 281-A - Workers' Compensation|Section 281-A:26 - Compensation for Death.

    281-A:26 Compensation for Death. –||If death results from an injury, weekly compensation shall be paid to the dependents of the deceased employee in an amount provided by the compensation schedule in RSA 281-A:28 as follows:||I. In all cases in which compensation is payable to a widow or widower for the benefit of herself or himself and dependent children, the commissioner shall have the power to determine from time to time, in the commissioner's discretion, what portion of the compensation shall be applied for the benefit of any such children and may order the same paid to a guardian.||II. In the case of the remarriage of a widow or widower without dependent children, compensation payments shall cease.||III. In the case of the remarriage of a widow or widower who has dependent children, the unpaid balance of compensation which would otherwise become due shall be payable to the mother, father, or guardian, or such other person as the commissioner may order, for the use and benefit of such children during dependency.||IV. The employer shall pay burial expenses not to exceed $10,000.||V. Any dependent, except a widow or a widower or children, who, at the time of the injury to the person covered under this chapter, is only partially dependent upon the injured person's earnings shall receive such proportion of the benefits provided for those wholly dependent as the amount of the wage contributed by the deceased to such partial dependent at the time of the injury bore to the total support of the dependent.||VI. Compensation for a dependent child shall continue until the child becomes 18 years of age, or until the child becomes 25 years of age if such child is enrolled as a full-time student in an accredited educational institution. However, if the commissioner determines that the child is self-supporting or if the child marries or is legally adopted, compensation shall cease. A dependent child who is physically or mentally incapacitated shall continue to receive compensation as long as the incapacity continues. This paragraph shall have no effect on accidents or fatalities occurring prior to July 1, 1975, which shall be governed by the provisions of workers' compensation law prior to that date.||VII. Compensation payable to any dependent other than a widow, widower, or children shall cease when such dependent is married, is legally adopted, or is determined by the commissioner to be self-supporting.|||Source. 1988, 194:2. 1990, 254:17. 2009, 78:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2010.|
NH Rev Stat § 281-A:27 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 281-A - Workers' Compensation|Section 281-A:27 - Payment for Death After Payment for Disability.

    281-A:27 Payment for Death After Payment for Disability. –||The total amount of benefit in case of a death shall not exceed the balance remaining between the amounts paid for disability and the total compensation payable under this chapter.|||Source. 1988, 194:2, eff. July 1, 1989.|
NH Rev Stat § 281-A:28 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 281-A - Workers' Compensation|Section 281-A:28 - Compensation for Temporary Total Disability.

    281-A:28 Compensation for Temporary Total Disability. –||An employer subject to this chapter, or the employer's insurance carrier, shall pay workers' compensation to an employee sustaining a personal injury which is totally disabling, but temporary in nature, and the employee is unable to return to work, but has not achieved maximum medical improvement, but not for the first 3 days of disability unless the disability continues for 14 days or longer, as follows:||I. If an employee's average weekly wage is 30 percent or less of the state's average weekly wage, weekly compensation shall be the full amount of that employee's average weekly wage. However, the maximum allowable weekly compensation rate under this paragraph shall not exceed 90 percent of the employee's after tax earnings as determined by RSA 281-A:15.||II. If an employee's average weekly wage is over 30 percent of the state's average weekly wage, weekly compensation shall be 60 percent of that employee's average weekly wage or 30 percent of the state's average weekly wage, whichever is greater, but in no event shall weekly compensation exceed 150 percent of the state's average weekly wage rounded off to the nearest dollar as the commissioner determines for the year in which the injury occurred. In no event shall the maximum weekly compensation rate exceed 100 percent of the employee's after tax weekly earnings as determined under RSA 281-A:15. For purposes of this section, the department of employment security shall establish the state's average weekly wage for the immediate preceding calendar year to be effective the following July 1.||III. Notwithstanding the provisions of RSA 281-A:26, 28, 29, and 32, the compensation of persons who regularly operate businesses or practice their trades, professions, or occupations as provided by RSA 281-A:2, VI shall be computed on the basis of 80 percent of their average weekly salary, but no more than 150 percent of the state's average weekly wage. The state's insurance commissioner is hereby authorized to review and approve an appropriate classification for the foregoing class of persons and a reasonable rate, if the commissioner chooses to do so.|||Source. 1988, 194:2. 1990, 254:18, 19. 1994, 3:7, eff. Feb. 8, 1994.|
NH Rev Stat § 281-A:28-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 281-A - Workers' Compensation|Section 281-A:28-a - Compensation for Permanent Total Disability.

    281-A:28-a Compensation for Permanent Total Disability. –||In case of total disability where the employee is unable to engage in gainful employment and the employee has reached maximum medical improvement, permanent benefits shall be payable to the employee during the continuance of such total disability, as follows:||I. If an employee's average weekly wage is 30 percent or less of the state's average weekly wage, weekly compensation shall be the full amount of said employee's weekly compensation rate. However, the maximum allowable weekly compensation rate under this paragraph shall not exceed 90 percent of the employee's after tax earnings as determined pursuant to RSA 281-A:15.||II. If an employee's average weekly wage is over 30 percent of the state's average weekly wage, weekly compensation shall be 60 percent of the employee's average weekly wage or 30 percent of the state's average weekly wage, whichever is greater, but in no event shall weekly compensation exceed 150 percent of the state's average weekly wage rounded off to the nearest dollar as determined by the commissioner for the year in which the injury occurred. In no event shall the weekly compensation rate exceed 100 percent of the employee's after tax weekly earnings as determined pursuant to RSA 281-A:15. For the purposes of this section, the state's average weekly wage shall be established by the department of employment security for the immediately preceding calendar year to be effective the following July 1.||III. No compensation shall be payable under this section if the employee is engaged in, or is physically capable of engaging in, gainful employment.|||Source. 1990, 254:20. 1994, 3:8, eff. Feb. 8, 1994.|
NH Rev Stat § 281-A:29 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 281-A - Workers' Compensation|Section 281-A:29 - Adjusted Total Disability Benefits.

    281-A:29 Adjusted Total Disability Benefits. –||For all compensable injuries occurring on or after July 1, 1963, for which total disability continues, except those injuries for which the employee is entitled to benefits under the federal Social Security Act, as amended, the injured employee shall be entitled to an adjustment in the weekly compensation rate effective July 1, 1975, based upon the following formula:||I. Determine the percentage of the injured employee's average weekly wage at the time of the injury to the state's average weekly wage as established by the department of employment security for the same corresponding year. In no event shall the percentage exceed 100 percent of the state's average weekly wage.||II. Determine the adjusted average weekly wage of the injured employee by applying the percentage determined in paragraph I against the state's current average weekly wage which is established annually on July 1 for the previous calendar year.||III. Determine the revised weekly rate of compensation by applying the adjusted average weekly wage to the current schedule of benefits under RSA 281-A:28.||IV. The injured employee shall be entitled to an adjustment in the weekly compensation rate at one year intervals on July 1 in each year with the initial review occurring on or after the third anniversary of the injury.||V. Every insurance carrier or self-insured employer shall be required to report each compensable injury case to the commissioner if total disability payments continue or are expected to continue for 6 months from the date of injury.||VI. Adjustments in weekly benefit rates shall only apply to the provisions of RSA 281-A:28 and shall not be retroactive from the anniversary date of such review, unless an employee entitled to such adjustment did not receive the amount due because of a mistake, misfortune, or lack of knowledge.|||Source. 1988, 194:2, eff. July 1, 1989.|
NH Rev Stat § 281-A:31 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 281-A - Workers' Compensation|Section 281-A:31 - Compensation for Temporary Partial Disability.

    281-A:31 Compensation for Temporary Partial Disability. –||If the disability for work resulting from an injury is partial, and the employee is able to work but has not yet reached maximum medical improvement, the employer, or the employer's insurance carrier, during such disability, but not for the first 3 days of disability unless the disability continues for 14 days or longer, shall pay to the injured employee a weekly compensation equal to 60 percent of the difference between the employee's average weekly wage before the injury and the average weekly wage which he or she is able to earn thereafter; but in no instance shall the weekly compensation exceed the amount set forth by the compensation schedule in RSA 281-A:28. Payments shall not continue after the disability ends, nor longer than 262 weeks; and, if the partial disability begins after a period of total disability, the period of total disability shall be deducted from such total period of 262 weeks.|||Source. 1988, 194:2. 1990, 254:21. 1994, 3:9, eff. Feb. 8, 1994.|
NH Rev Stat § 281-A:31-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 281-A - Workers' Compensation|Section 281-A:31-a - Compensation for Permanent Partial Disability.

    281-A:31-a Compensation for Permanent Partial Disability. –||Where the disability for work resulting from an injury is permanent but partial in nature, the employee has reached maximum medical improvement, is able to return to work, and there is an impairment in accordance with the "Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment" published by the American Medical Association as set forth in RSA 281-A:32, the employer, or insurance carrier, during such disability shall pay to the injured employee a weekly compensation equal to 60 percent of the difference between his average weekly wage before the injury and the average weekly wage which he is able to earn thereafter. However, in no instance shall the weekly compensation exceed the amounts set forth by the compensation schedule in RSA 281-A:28. Payments shall not continue after the disability ends, nor longer than 262 weeks; and if the partial disability begins after a period of total disability, the period of disability shall be deducted from such total period of 262 weeks.|||Source. 1990, 254:22. 1994, 3:10, eff. Feb. 8, 1994.|
NH Rev Stat § 281-A:32-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 281-A - Workers' Compensation|Section 281-A:32-a - First Responder's Critical Injury Benefit.

    281-A:32-a First Responder's Critical Injury Benefit. –||I. In addition to other payments made under RSA 281-A, a group II retirement system member may request additional compensation under this section. If the impairment to a group II retirement system member resulting from an injury is partial, with a determination by the department of labor that the employee has reached maximum medical improvement and that such maximum medical improvement is less than 100 percent, the governor may draw a warrant, with approval by the executive council, from funds not otherwise appropriated for payments in addition to benefits payable under this chapter for an award to be paid to such employees in amounts provided by RSA 281-A:28 for the number of weeks set forth in this section for permanent bodily loss or impairment:|| (a) Permanent loss or impairment of heart, lung, or brain 208| (b) Permanent loss or impairment of other internal organs 104| (c) Permanent loss or impairment of speech, touch, taste, or smell 104| |||II. Payments awarded under this section shall be subject to all other provisions of RSA 281-A. Total compensation payments for all additional compensation claims paid under this section shall not exceed $125,000 per claimant. Benefits paid under this section for all claimants shall not exceed $500,000 per biennium.|||Source. 2014, 242:1, eff. July 21, 2014. 2016, 305:1, eff. June 21, 2016. 2017, 111:1, eff. June 8, 2017.|
NH Rev Stat § 281-A:32-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 281-A - Workers' Compensation|Section 281-A:32-b - Repealed by 2014, 242:2, II, eff. Nov. 1, 2014.

    281-A:32-b Repealed by 2014, 242:2, II, eff. Nov. 1, 2014. –|
NH Rev Stat § 281-A:32-c (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 281-A - Workers' Compensation|Section 281-A:32-c - Repealed by 2015, 214:3, eff. Nov. 1, 2015.

    281-A:32-c Repealed by 2015, 214:3, eff. Nov. 1, 2015. –|
NH Rev Stat § 281-A:33 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 281-A - Workers' Compensation|Section 281-A:33 - Double Compensation.

    281-A:33 Double Compensation. –||Any employer who is liable for the compensation provided by any or all of RSA 281-A:26, 28, 31, or 32 shall, upon being found in violation of any provision of either or both RSA 277 and RSA 276-A, insofar as the latter chapter deals with prohibiting hazardous occupations for youth, and if there is recorded in the department a prior violation of the same kind or if the employer has failed to comply with written departmental recommendations applicable to a first violation within the reasonable period allowed, become liable for twice the amount of such compensation; provided, however, that if payment of compensation is secured pursuant to RSA 281-A:5, I, an employer and employer's insurance carrier shall share equally the payment of compensation under this section.|||Source. 1988, 194:2, eff. July 1, 1989.|
NH Rev Stat § 281-A:34 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 281-A - Workers' Compensation|Section 281-A:34 - Maximum Benefits.

    281-A:34 Maximum Benefits. –||In no case, except as provided in RSA 281-A:31, 32, or 33, shall the weekly compensation payable under this chapter exceed the benefits set forth in RSA 281-A:28.|||Source. 1988, 194:2, eff. July 1, 1989.|
NH Rev Stat § 281-A:35 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 281-A - Workers' Compensation|Section 281-A:35 - Voluntary Payments.

    281-A:35 Voluntary Payments. –||Payments made by an employer, or the employer's insurance carrier, to an injured employee during the period of the employee's disability, or to the dependents of such employee, which, by the provisions of this chapter, were not due and payable when made, may, subject to the approval of the commissioner, be deducted from the amount to be paid as compensation; provided that, in a case of disability, such deduction shall be made by shortening the period during which compensation shall be paid and not by reducing the amount of the weekly payments under this chapter.|||Source. 1988, 194:2, eff. July 1, 1989.|
NH Rev Stat § 281-A:36 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 281-A - Workers' Compensation|Section 281-A:36 - Savings or Insurance; Benefits to Injured Employee From Other Sources.

    281-A:36 Savings or Insurance;  Benefits to Injured Employee From Other Sources. –||No savings or insurance of the injured employee independent of this chapter shall be taken into consideration in determining the compensation to be paid under this chapter, nor shall benefits derived from any source other than the employer be considered in fixing the compensation under this chapter.|||Source. 1988, 194:2, eff. July 1, 1989.|
NH Rev Stat § 281-A:37 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 281-A - Workers' Compensation|Section 281-A:37 - Lump Sum Payments.

    281-A:37 Lump Sum Payments. –||I. Where there has been a determination of compensability by the employer, the employer's insurance carrier, the commissioner, the commissioner's designated representative or the board, in cases where there have been at least 12 months of continuous disability, or where the best interests of all concerned will be served, lump sum agreements may be approved by the commissioner. Nothing in this section shall prohibit the employer or the employer's insurance carrier from making a determination of compensability at any time.||II. In no event shall the medical provisions of this chapter be lump summed. The costs of vocational rehabilitation services as provided in RSA 281-A:25 may be lump summed provided the lump sum agreement specifically sets forth the portion of the lump sum amount attributable to vocational rehabilitation services. Such sum shall be held in escrow by the employer or insurance carrier and shall be paid to the provider of the vocational rehabilitation services for services incurred by the claimant. Any lump sum agreement which proposes to include the costs of vocational rehabilitation services shall also specify the nature of the vocational rehabilitation services to be provided to the claimant and shall require the claimant to commence such vocational rehabilitation services within 6 months of the approval of the agreement. The employer and the insurance carrier shall not be liable for vocational rehabilitation services incurred if the claimant fails to commence use of vocational rehabilitation services within 6 months after approval of the lump sum agreement, unless the period is extended by the commissioner for good cause.||III. No lump sum agreement shall be approved under this section except after a hearing before the commissioner or the commissioner's designated representative.||IV. Any lump sum payment which does not comply with this section shall not be included in data filed with the insurance department for ratemaking purposes nor shall it affect the employer's experience modification factor.|||Source. 1988, 194:2. 1993, 357:1. 1994, 3:11, eff. Feb. 8, 1994.|
NH Rev Stat § 281-A:38-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 281-A - Workers' Compensation|Section 281-A:38-a - Examination of Injured Employees Covered by Managed Care Programs.

    281-A:38-a Examination of Injured Employees Covered by Managed Care Programs. –||If an injured employee who is covered by a managed care program established in accordance with RSA 281-A:23-a is dissatisfied with a determination made by such program relating to compensability, degree of disability or degree of impairment arising from an injury, the injured employee may apply to the commissioner for authorization to obtain an independent examination and report thereof by a duly qualified health care provider, in accordance with RSA 281-A:38, of the injured employee's choice. The commissioner shall grant one such authorization as a matter of course. Authorization for additional independent examination regarding the same injury may be granted only if the commissioner finds that exceptional circumstances exist which cast reasonable doubt on the accuracy of the report of the first independent examination. The health care provider conducting an independent examination authorized by the commissioner under this section shall be entitled to a reasonable fee therefor, which shall be paid by the employer or the employer's insurance carrier. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent an injured employee from obtaining an examination by a health care provider of the injured employee's choice, at the employee's expense.|||Source. 1993, 311:2. 1996, 231:2, eff. Aug. 9, 1996.|
NH Rev Stat § 281-A:39 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 281-A - Workers' Compensation|Section 281-A:39 - Refusal to Submit to Examination.

    281-A:39 Refusal to Submit to Examination. –||If the employee refuses to submit to an examination as provided in RSA 281-A:38 or obstructs that examination, the employee's right to weekly payments shall be suspended until such examination has taken place; and no compensation shall be payable during or for such period. If medical bills are in dispute and the employee refuses to submit to an examination as provided in RSA 281-A:38 or obstructs that examination, the employee's right to a hearing shall be suspended until such examination has taken place.|||Source. 1988, 194:2. 2005, 94:2, eff. Aug. 6, 2005.|
NH Rev Stat § 281-A:40 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 281-A - Workers' Compensation|Section 281-A:40 - Memorandum of Payment.

    281-A:40 Memorandum of Payment. –||An employer or the employer's insurance carrier shall make payment of compensation in the amount and manner provided by this chapter. Payment shall be made by direct deposit 6 weeks from the date of disability if the injured worker elects this payment method. The employer or the employer's insurance carrier shall notify the injured worker in writing of his or her right to payment by direct deposit. If no election is made, payment shall be made by paper check mailed to the injured worker. The employer shall file memoranda of payments with the commissioner in accordance with rules adopted by the commissioner under RSA 281-A:60.|||Source. 1988, 194:2, eff. July 1, 1989. 2018, 311:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2019.|
NH Rev Stat § 281-A:41 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIII - Labor|Title 281-A - Workers' Compensation|Section 281-A:41 - Payment Without Prejudice.

    281-A:41 Payment Without Prejudice. –||No payment of any benefits under this chapter shall in any way prejudice the rights of an employer in any dispute regarding the question of whether or not an injury or occupational disease arose out of and in the course of an employee's service.|||Source. 1988, 194:2, eff. July 1, 1989.|