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SC Code § 42-9-370 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 42 - Workers' Compensation|Chapter 9 - Compensation And Payment|Section 42-9-370. Preferences or priorities of rights of compensation.

 All rights of compensation granted by this title shall have the same preference or priority for the whole thereof against the assets of the employer as is allowed by law for any unpaid wages for labor.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 72-188; 1952 Code Section 72-188; 1942 Code Section 7035-23; 1936 (39) 1231.
SC Code § 42-9-390 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 42 - Workers' Compensation|Chapter 9 - Compensation And Payment|Section 42-9-390. Voluntary settlements.

 Nothing contained in this chapter may be construed so as to prevent settlements made by and between an employee and employer as long as the amount of compensation and the time and manner of payment are in accordance with the provisions of this title. The employer must file a copy of the settlement agreement with the commission if each party is represented by an attorney. If the employee is not represented by an attorney, a copy of the settlement agreement must be filed by the employer with the commission and approved by one member of the commission.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 72-191; 1952 Code Section 72-191; 1942 Code Section 7035-20; 1936 (39) 1231; 1986 Act No. 388, eff April 29, 1986; 2007 Act No. 111, Pt I, Section 23, eff July 1, 2007, applicable to injuries that occur on of after that date.
SC Code § 42-9-410 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 42 - Workers' Compensation|Chapter 9 - Compensation And Payment|Section 42-9-410. Reimbursement from Second Injury Fund for employee who becomes totally and permanently disabled in a subsequent injury; notice of preexisting permanent impairment.

 (a) When an employee shall become totally and permanently disabled under Section 42-9-10, because of the loss of a hand, arm, foot, leg or the vision of an eye in a subsequent injury under Section 42-9-150 or 42-9-170, he may receive from the employer compensation and medical care provided by this title for total and permanent disability, and the employer shall be reimbursed a portion of the cost thereof from the Second Injury Fund as herein provided.  (b) If the loss of the member or eyesight is not caused or contributed to by any of the conditions defined as "permanent physical impairment" in Section 42-9-400, the employer shall be responsible to pay such compensation and provide such medical care as is required by Sections 42-9-150 or 42-9-170 and 42-15-60, and the employer shall thereafter be reimbursed by the Second Injury Fund for the cost of such further compensation and medical care as the injured employee shall receive under this chapter.  (c) If the loss of the member or eyesight is caused or contributed to by any of the conditions defined in Section 42-9-400 as "permanent physical impairment," the employer shall pay the compensation and medical expense for seventy-eight weeks as required by subsection (a) of Section 42-9-400 and thereafter the employer shall be reimbursed from the Second Injury Fund for such further compensation or medical expense as the employer shall provide for the employee under this chapter.  (d) In order to receive additional benefits from the Second Injury Fund as permitted by Sections 42-9-150 and 42-9-170, the employer shall establish that he had knowledge of the employee's preexisting permanent physical impairment prior to the time of the subsequent injury by accident, unless the employer can establish that he did not have prior knowledge of the employee's preexisting physical impairment because the existence of the condition was concealed by the employee.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 72-601.1; 1974 (58) 2237, 2758; 1982 Act No. 314, Section 1; 2003 Act No. 73, Section 23, eff June 25, 2003.
SC Code § 42-9-430 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 42 - Workers' Compensation|Chapter 9 - Compensation And Payment|Section 42-9-430. Workers' compensation benefits.

 Whenever a dispute arises between two or more parties as to which party is liable for the payment of workers' compensation benefits to an injured employee pursuant to the provisions of this title and there is no genuine issue of material fact as to the employee's employment, his average weekly wage, the occurrence of an injury, the extent of the injury, and the fact that the injury arose out of and in the course of the employment, the hearing commissioner may, in his discretion, require the disputing parties involved to pay benefits immediately to the employee and to share equally in the payment of those benefits until it is determined which party is solely liable, at which time the liable party must reimburse all other parties for the benefits they have paid to the employee with interest at the legal rate of interest provided in Section 34-31-20(A).  HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 276.
SC Code § 42-9-440 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 42 - Workers' Compensation|Chapter 9 - Compensation And Payment|Section 42-9-440. Suspected false statements or misrepresentations to be reported to Insurance Fraud Division of Office of Attorney General.

 The commission shall report all cases of suspected false statement or misrepresentation, as defined in Section 38-55-530(D), to the Insurance Fraud Division of the Office of the Attorney General for investigation and prosecution, if warranted, pursuant to the Omnibus Insurance Fraud and Reporting Immunity Act.  HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 497, Part II, Section 31B, eff July 1, 1994.
SC Code § 42-9-450 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 42 - Workers' Compensation|Chapter 9 - Compensation And Payment|Section 42-9-450. Employer's representatives to pay by check or electronic payment systems.

 An employer's representative shall make payment of compensation by means of check or electronic payment system including, but not limited to, an electronic funds transfer, a direct deposit, debit card, or similar payment system if such payments are made in accordance with the policies, procedures, or regulations as provided by the commission.  HISTORY: 2017 Act No. 24 (H.3441), Section 1, eff May 9, 2017.
SC Code § 42-11-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 42 - Workers' Compensation|Chapter 11 - Occupational Diseases|Section 42-11-10. "Occupational disease" defined.

 (A) "Occupational disease" means a disease arising out of and in the course of employment that is due to hazards in excess of those ordinarily incident to employment and is peculiar to the occupation in which the employee is engaged. A disease is considered an occupational disease only if caused by a hazard recognized as peculiar to a particular trade, process, occupation, or employment as a direct result of continuous exposure to the normal working conditions of that particular trade, process, occupation, or employment. In a claim for an occupational disease, the employee shall establish that the occupational disease arose directly and naturally from exposure in this State to the hazards peculiar to the particular employment by a preponderance of the evidence.  (B) No disease shall be considered an occupational disease when it:  (1) does not result directly and naturally from exposure in this State to the hazards peculiar to the particular employment;  (2) results from exposure to outside climatic conditions;  (3) is a contagious disease resulting from exposure to fellow employees or from a hazard to which the workman would have been equally exposed outside of his employment;  (4) is one of the ordinary diseases of life to which the general public is equally exposed, unless such disease follows as a complication and a natural incident of an occupational disease or unless there is continuous exposure peculiar to the occupation itself which makes such disease a hazard inherent in such occupation;  (5) is any disease of the cardiac, pulmonary, or circulatory system not resulting directly from abnormal external gaseous pressure exerted upon the body or the natural entrance into the body through the skin or natural orifices thereof of foreign organic or inorganic matter under circumstances peculiar to the employment and the processes utilized therein; or  (6) is any chronic disease of the skeletal joints.  (C) As used in this section, "medical evidence" means expert opinion or testimony stated to a reasonable degree of medical certainty, documents, records, or other material that is offered by a licensed health care provider.  (D) No compensation shall be payable for any occupational disease unless the employee suffers a disability as described in Section 42-9-10, 42-9-20, or 42-9-30.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 72-251; 1952 Code Section 72-251; 1949 (46) 565; 2007 Act No. 111, Pt I, Section 24, eff July 1, 2007, applicable to injuries that occur on or after that date.
SC Code § 42-11-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 42 - Workers' Compensation|Chapter 11 - Occupational Diseases|Section 42-11-20. "Disablement" and "disability" defined.

 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 disability" means the physical inability to continue work in such occupation only and "total disability" means the physical inability to perform work in any occupation. The disablement and disability of an employee from an occupational disease shall be determined as provided in this chapter.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 72-252; 1952 Code Section 72-252; 1949 (46) 565.
SC Code § 42-11-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 42 - Workers' Compensation|Chapter 11 - Occupational Diseases|Section 42-11-40. Occupational diseases treated as injuries by accident.

 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 as for an injury under this title, except as otherwise provided in this chapter, and the practice and procedure prescribed in this title shall apply to all proceedings under this chapter, except as otherwise provided in this chapter. In no case shall an employer be liable for compensation for an occupational disease unless such disease was contracted by the employee while in the employ of the employer as a direct result of the employment.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 72-253; 1952 Code Section 72-253; 1949 (46) 565.
SC Code § 42-11-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 42 - Workers' Compensation|Chapter 11 - Occupational Diseases|Section 42-11-50. Limitation on compensation payable to employee disabled by both injury and occupational disease.

 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 period of disability, either as provided under this chapter or as provided for an injury by accident arising out of and in the course of employment. In no event shall compensation payable for disability or death exceed the maximum benefits provided under this title.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 72-254; 1952 Code Section 72-254; 1949 (46) 565.
SC Code § 42-11-60 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 42 - Workers' Compensation|Chapter 11 - Occupational Diseases|Section 42-11-60. Requirements for compensation for pulmonary diseases.

 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, however, in claims based on byssinosis the claimant must have been exposed to dust in his employment for a period of at least seven years.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 72-255; 1952 Code Section 72-255; 1949 (46) 565; 1977 Act No. 103 Section 1.
SC Code § 42-11-70 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 42 - Workers' Compensation|Chapter 11 - Occupational Diseases|Section 42-11-70. Time in which disease must have been contracted.

 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 his employment which caused the disease, save that in the case of a pulmonary disease arising out of the inhalation of organic or inorganic dusts the period shall be two years.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 72-256; 1952 Code Section 72-256; 1949 (46) 565; 1963 (53) 143.
SC Code § 42-11-80 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 42 - Workers' Compensation|Chapter 11 - Occupational Diseases|Section 42-11-80. Wilful misrepresentation by employee as to absence of disease; waivers.

 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 occupational disease desires to continue in an employment to which such a disease is a hazard, he may waive his right to receive further benefits for disablement or disability from such disease by written agreement approved by the commission in accordance with such rules as it may promulgate.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 72-257; 1952 Code Section 72-257; 1949 (46) 565.
SC Code § 42-11-90 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 42 - Workers' Compensation|Chapter 11 - Occupational Diseases|Section 42-11-90. Amount of compensation when noncompensable cause or disease affects occupational disease.

 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 solely from the occupational disease if there were no other such cause or infirmity and shall be computed by the proportion which the disability from occupational disease bears to the entire disability.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 72-258; 1952 Code Section 72-258; 1949 (46) 565.
SC Code § 42-11-100 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 42 - Workers' Compensation|Chapter 11 - Occupational Diseases|Section 42-11-100. Amount of compensation payable for disability; exceptions.

 Compensation payable for disability from an occupational disease must be the same as that provided for an injury under this title. No compensation is payable:  (1) for the degree of disability resulting from noncompensable causes or the employee's refusal to use a safety appliance provided by and regularly required to be used by the employer or to obey a safety rule or regulation adopted and regularly enforced by the employer;  (2) for any disability resulting from the employee's intoxication or wilful intent to injure himself;  (3) for the time the employee refuses to accept suitable employment when ordered to do so by the commission;  (4) after the disability terminates.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 72-259; 1952 Code Section 72-259; 1949 (46) 565; 1977 Act No. 103 Section 2; 1988 Act No. 677, Section 1, eff June 27, 1988.
SC Code § 42-11-110 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 42 - Workers' Compensation|Chapter 11 - Occupational Diseases|Section 42-11-110. No presumptions; misconception of remedy.

 There shall be no presumption that disablement from any cause or infirmity is the result of a occupational disease, nor that an occupational disease will result in disablement or disability. But when disability results from a disease which is compensable under other provisions of this title, although not an occupational disease, the employee shall not be deprived of any benefits to which he may be entitled because he may have misconceived his remedy to be for an occupational disease.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 72-260; 1952 Code Section 72-260; 1949 (46) 565.
SC Code § 42-11-120 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 42 - Workers' Compensation|Chapter 11 - Occupational Diseases|Section 42-11-120. Procedure for determining claims; reference of medical question to medical board.

 The procedure for determining claims for benefits from an occupational disease shall be the same as that followed in determining other claims under this title, save that if any medical question shall be in controversy the commission may, upon its own motion, and shall, upon motion of either party to the proceeding, refer the question to the medical board as provided in this chapter for investigation and report. A medical question shall be deemed to include any issue concerning the existence, cause and duration of a disease or disability, the date of disablement, the degree of disability and the proportion thereof attributable to a noncompensable cause and any other matter necessarily pertinent thereto requiring the opinion of experts.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 72-261; 1952 Code Section 72-261; 1949 (46) 565.
SC Code § 42-11-130 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 42 - Workers' Compensation|Chapter 11 - Occupational Diseases|Section 42-11-130. Membership of medical board.

 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 or his insurer as the case may be, and the third to be chosen by the commission or hearing commissioner. But if within ten days after the hearing in which a controverted medical question is raised one or more of the parties have failed to nominate a member, the commission or commissioner hearing the case shall nominate a member or members to complete the board to three members.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 72-262; 1952 Code Section 72-262; 1949 (46) 565; 1977 Act No. 103 Section 3.
SC Code § 42-11-140 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 42 - Workers' Compensation|Chapter 11 - Occupational Diseases|Section 42-11-140. Fees and expenses of medical board.

 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 require in order to properly complete its investigation in a particular case, shall be chargeable as cost to the losing party in the controversy, save that when the claimant is the losing party such fees, costs and expenses shall be borne by the commission.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 72-263; 1952 Code Section 72-263; 1949 (46) 565.
SC Code § 42-11-150 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 42 - Workers' Compensation|Chapter 11 - Occupational Diseases|Section 42-11-150. Procedure before medical board.

 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 employee, if deceased. The medical board shall consider any testimony given before the commission pertaining to the medical question and necessary to a proper determination thereof. The medical board shall, as soon as practical after it has completed its consideration of the case, report in writing its findings and conclusions on every medical question in controversy. Such report shall be a part of the record in the case and shall include a statement indicating the physician or physicians, if any, who appeared before it, the medical board, what, if any, medical reports and X-rays were considered by it and any other matters which it deems necessary to explain or substantiate its conclusions. The commission upon receipt of the report shall send a copy thereof to the claimant and to the employer and his insurance carrier, if any.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 72-264; 1952 Code Section 72-264; 1949 (46) 565.
SC Code § 42-11-160 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 42 - Workers' Compensation|Chapter 11 - Occupational Diseases|Section 42-11-160. Decisions on questions by medical board.

 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 commission; provided, the report shall not be binding on the commission if it be proven that the conclusion of the board upon a medical question be erroneous, due to fraud, undue influence, or mistake of law or material fact.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 72-265; 1952 Code Section 72-265; 1949 (46) 565; 1977 Act No. 103 Section 4.
SC Code § 42-11-170 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 42 - Workers' Compensation|Chapter 11 - Occupational Diseases|Section 42-11-170. Membership of medical advisory panel.

 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' Compensation Commission. The medical advisory panel shall include at least three doctors of medicine with no less than five years' specialization in the field of X-ray diagnosis and treatment, at least three doctors of medicine with no less than five years' specialization in pathology, at least three doctors of medicine with no less than five years' experience in the treatment and diagnosis of occupational diseases or who are specially qualified by training and experience as experts in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases in general and two doctors who are qualified for the treatment of pulmonary diseases. Members of the medical advisory panel shall serve for a term of two years and the Governor may from time to time fill vacancies in the membership thereof from its lists submitted to him as provided in this section.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 72-266; 1952 Code Section 72-266; 1949 (46) 565; 1977 Act No. 103 Section 5.
SC Code § 42-11-180 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 42 - Workers' Compensation|Chapter 11 - Occupational Diseases|Section 42-11-180. Compensation of members of medical advisory panel.

 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 plus their reasonable maintenance and travel expenses to be paid by the commission.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 72-267; 1952 Code Section 72-267; 1949 (46) 565; 1951 (47) 506.