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WY Stat § 27-14-502 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 27 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 14 - Worker's Compensation|Article 5 - Claim Procedure|Section 27-14-502 - Employee's Injury Report to Employer and Division; Presumption Raised by Failure to File Report; Release of Information.

27-14-502. Employee's injury report to employer and division; presumption raised by failure to file report; release of information.| (a) As soon as is practical but not later than seventy-two (72) hours after the general nature of the injury became apparent, an injured employee shall, in writing or by other means approved by the department, report the occurrence and general nature of the accident or injury to the employer. In addition, the injured employee shall within ten (10) days after the injury became apparent, file an injury report with the employer and the division in a manner and containing information prescribed by division rule and regulation. If the injured employee is physically unable to comply, a personal representative of the employee, his dependents or a personal representative of the dependents in case of death shall, following notification by the employer or department of reporting requirements, make and file the report for the injured employee.  (b) If an injured employee, any dependent or personal representative makes a written report of the injury to the employer or his representative, the employer shall acknowledge receipt of the report in writing either upon the report or a copy of the report.  (c) Failure of the injured employee, any dependent or personal representative to report the accident or injury to the employer and to file the injury report in accordance with subsection (a) of this section is a presumption that the claim shall be denied. The presumption may be rebutted if the employee establishes by clear and convincing evidence a lack of prejudice to the employer or division in investigating the injury and in monitoring medical treatment.  (d) The filing of an employee's injury report under this section is a release of information for the duration of the benefit period and upon request and upon notice to the employee, any medical care provider, physician or hospital treating the employee for the injury shall release medical records pertaining to the injury to the division or the employer.
WY Stat § 27-14-503 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 27 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 14 - Worker's Compensation|Article 5 - Claim Procedure|Section 27-14-503 - Statute of Limitations.

27-14-503. Statute of limitations.| (a) A payment for benefits involving an injury which is the result of a single brief occurrence rather than occurring over a substantial period of time shall not be made unless in addition to the proper and timely filing of the injury reports, an application or claim for benefits is filed within one (1) year after the date the injury occurred or for injuries not readily apparent, within one (1) year after discovery of the injury by the employee. The injury report is not a claim for benefits.  (b) The right of compensation for an injury which occurs over a substantial period of time is barred unless a claim for benefits is filed within one (1) year after a diagnosis of injury is first communicated to the employee, or within three (3) years from the date of last injurious workplace exposure to the condition causing the injury, whichever occurs last, excluding injury caused by ionizing radiation to which the three (3) year limitation does not apply. If death results from ionizing radiation within one (1) year after a diagnosis of the medical condition is first communicated to the employee or if death occurs without the communication of a diagnosis to the employee, a claim shall be filed within one (1) year after the date of death.  (c) Repealed by Laws 1996, ch. 82, § 2.
WY Stat § 27-14-504 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 27 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 14 - Worker's Compensation|Article 5 - Claim Procedure|Section 27-14-504 - Amendment of Employee's Injury Report.

27-14-504. Amendment of employee's injury report.| An employee's injury report may be amended at any time before an initial award is made in order that the employee may correctly set out the nature of his injury. Any amendment may be approved, disapproved or contested as if an original injury report.
WY Stat § 27-14-505 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 27 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 14 - Worker's Compensation|Article 5 - Claim Procedure|Section 27-14-505 - Tolling of Statute of Limitations While Persons Under Disability.

27-14-505. Tolling of statute of limitations while persons under disability.| If an injured employee is mentally incompetent or a minor, or where death results from the injury and any of his dependents are mentally incompetent or minors, at the time when any right or privilege accrues under this act, no limitation of time provided for in this act shall run so long as the mentally incompetent or minor has no guardian.
WY Stat § 27-14-506 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 27 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 14 - Worker's Compensation|Article 5 - Claim Procedure|Section 27-14-506 - Employer's Injury Report; Penalty for Failure to Report.

27-14-506. Employer's injury report; penalty for failure to report.| (a) When an injury is reported by any employee, the employer shall file an employer's injury report with the division within ten (10) days after the date on which the employer is notified of the injury and he shall mail or deliver a copy of the report to the employee. The employer's injury report shall be certified and shall contain any information provided by rules and regulations adopted by the director. The employer shall state on the injury report that either the injury is:  (i) Compensable and under the jurisdiction of this act; or  (ii) Not compensable under this act and the reasons therefor.  (b) Repealed by Laws 1996, ch. 82, § 2.  (c) Willful failure or gross negligence to report occurrences causing injury to any of his employees by an employer is a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not more than seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), imprisonment for not more than six (6) months, or both.
WY Stat § 27-14-507 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 27 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 14 - Worker's Compensation|Article 5 - Claim Procedure|Section 27-14-507 - Employer Required to Post Notice.

27-14-507. Employer required to post notice.| Each employer shall keep posted in a conspicuous place for employees a notice which shall be furnished by the division and which shall contain a brief summary of this act and procedures for filing claims. Each employer shall also keep a copy of this act and have it available for all employees.
WY Stat § 27-14-508 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 27 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 14 - Worker's Compensation|Article 5 - Claim Procedure|Section 27-14-508 - Blank Form Supplied by Director; Instructions to Employees, Employers and Health Care Providers; Training Programs for Clerks of Court.

27-14-508. Blank form supplied by director; instructions to employees, employers and health care providers; training programs for clerks of court.| (a) The director shall:  (i) Prepare, print and supply free of charge any blank forms necessary in administering this act to be used insofar as possible in all procedures under this act;  (ii) Prepare and print instructions for making correct claims for the information and use of employees;  (iii) Repealed by Laws 1996, ch. 82, § 2.  (iv) Prepare and print instructions for proper claim procedures for the information and use of health care providers and providers of medical and hospital care;  (v) Prepare and print instructions for proper claim procedures including approving or objecting to claims for the information and use of employers.  (b) Repealed by Laws 1996, ch. 82, § 2.
WY Stat § 27-14-509 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 27 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 14 - Worker's Compensation|Article 5 - Claim Procedure|Section 27-14-509 - Autopsy May Be Required; Procedure.

27-14-509. Autopsy may be required; procedure.| Upon the filing of a claim for compensation for death for which an autopsy is necessary to accurately and scientifically ascertain and determine the cause of death, a hearing examiner may order an autopsy. The hearing examiner may designate a licensed physician who is a specialist in autopsies to perform or attend the autopsy and to certify his findings. The autopsy findings are a public record and shall be filed with the division. The hearing examiner may exercise the authority on his own motion or on an application made to him at any time by any party in interest upon the presentation of facts showing that a controversy may exist in regard to the cause of death or the existence of any compensable injury. All proceedings for compensation shall be suspended upon refusal of a claimant or his representative to permit an autopsy when ordered and no compensation shall be payable during the continuance of the refusal.
WY Stat § 27-14-510 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 27 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 14 - Worker's Compensation|Article 5 - Claim Procedure|Section 27-14-510 - Misrepresentations or False Statements; Failure of Employer to Establish Account or Furnish Payroll Report.

27-14-510. Misrepresentations or false statements; failure of employer to establish account or furnish payroll report.| (a) Any person who knowingly makes, authorizes or permits any misrepresentation or false statement to be made for the purpose of him or another person receiving payment of any kind under this act is guilty of:  (i) A misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), imprisonment for not more than six (6) months, or both, if the value of the payment is less than five hundred dollars ($500.00);  (ii) A felony punishable by a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00), imprisonment for not more than ten (10) years, or both, if the value of the payment is five hundred dollars ($500.00) or more.  (b) Any employer who knowingly makes a false statement in a payroll report or reports resulting in the avoidance of or reduction in the employer's premium obligation within a one (1) year period is guilty of:  (i) A misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), imprisonment for not more than six (6) months, or both, if the avoided premium or reduction in premium is less than five hundred dollars ($500.00); or  (ii) A felony punishable by a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00), imprisonment for not more than ten (10) years, or both, if the avoided premium or reduction in premium is five hundred dollars ($500.00) or more.  (c) Any employer who knowingly makes a false statement in an injury report with the intention of denying a worker benefits due under this act is guilty of:  (i) A misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), imprisonment for not more than six (6) months, or both, if the value of the benefits is less than five hundred dollars ($500.00);  (ii) A felony punishable by a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00), imprisonment for not more than ten (10) years, or both, if the value of the benefits is five hundred dollars ($500.00) or more.  (d) Any employer who knowingly fails to establish an account or knowingly fails to furnish a payroll report as required by this act is guilty of:  (i) A misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), imprisonment for not more than six (6) months, or both, for a first conviction; or  (ii) A felony punishable by a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00), imprisonment for not more than ten (10) years, or both, for a second or subsequent conviction.
WY Stat § 27-14-511 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 27 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 14 - Worker's Compensation|Article 5 - Claim Procedure|Section 27-14-511 - Recovery of Benefits Paid by Mistake or Fraud.

27-14-511. Recovery of benefits paid by mistake or fraud.| The attorney general may bring a civil action to recover the value of any benefits or other monies paid under this act due to mistake, misrepresentation or fraud. The attorney general shall be entitled to recover the costs of suit and reasonable attorney fees in cases of misrepresentation or fraud. Nothing in this section shall prohibit a criminal prosecution where appropriate. Any civil action for recovery of overpayment resulting from a mistake by the division shall be commenced within one (1) year after the alleged overpayment and shall be limited to recovery of those mistaken payments made within twelve (12) months before the commencement of the action.
WY Stat § 27-14-603 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 27 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 14 - Worker's Compensation|Article 6 - Contested Cases|Section 27-14-603 - Burden of Proof; Required Proof of Circumstances; Coronary Conditions; Hernia.

27-14-603. Burden of proof; required proof of circumstances; coronary conditions; hernia.| (a) The burden of proof in contested cases involving injuries which occur over a substantial period of time is on the employee to prove by competent medical authority that his claim arose out of and in the course of his employment and to prove by a preponderance of evidence that:  (i) There is a direct causal connection between the condition or circumstances under which the work is performed and the injury;  (ii) The injury can be seen to have followed as a natural incident of the work as a result of the employment;  (iii) The injury can fairly be traced to the employment as a proximate cause;  (iv) The injury does not come from a hazard to which employees would have been equally exposed outside of the employment; and  (v) The injury is incidental to the character of the business and not independent of the relation of employer and employee.  (b) Benefits for employment-related coronary conditions except those directly and solely caused by an injury, are not payable unless the employee establishes by competent medical authority that:  (i) There is a direct causal connection between the condition under which the work was performed and the cardiac condition; and  (ii) The causative exertion occurs during the actual period of employment stress clearly unusual to or abnormal for employees in that particular employment, irrespective of whether the employment stress is unusual to or abnormal for the individual employee; and  (iii) The acute symptoms of the cardiac condition are clearly manifested not later than four (4) hours after the alleged causative exertion.  (c) If an employee suffers a hernia, he is entitled to compensation if he clearly proves that:  (i) The hernia is of recent origin;  (ii) Its appearance was accompanied by pain;  (iii) It was immediately preceded by some accidental strain suffered in the course of the employment; and  (iv) It did not exist prior to the date of the alleged injury.  (d) If an employee establishes his right to compensation for a hernia as provided and elects not to be operated on, he shall not be compensated for the results of future strangulation of the hernia.  (e) In those proceedings in which the entitlement of an employee to benefits for successive compensable injuries is established but no single employer can be determined to be chargeable for the injuries, the division shall apportion the benefit charge in accordance with W.S. 27-14-201(d).
WY Stat § 27-14-604 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 27 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 14 - Worker's Compensation|Article 6 - Contested Cases|Section 27-14-604 - Examination by Impartial Health Care Provider; Costs; Report by Nonresident Provider.

27-14-604. Examination by impartial health care provider; costs; report by nonresident provider.| (a) In any contested proceeding, the hearing examiner may appoint a duly qualified impartial health care provider to examine the employee and give testimony. The fee for the service shall be as ordered by the hearing examiner, with mileage allowance as is allowed to other witnesses to be assessed as costs and paid as other witness fees are paid. The employer or employee may, at his own expense, also designate a qualified health care provider who may be present at the examination of the employee and give testimony at later hearings.  (b) If the employer and employee stipulate to an examination of the employee by a nonresident, qualified health care provider designated by the hearing examiner, and that the report of the health care provider as to his examination shall be admitted in evidence, the hearing examiner may order payment of the reasonable cost and expense of the employee's attendance upon the health care provider, the provider's fee for examination of the employee and his report thereon. The fees and costs shall be charged in the same manner as other costs and witness fees. The nonresident health care provider shall report in writing to the hearing examiner and include answers to questions asked by the hearing examiner relative to the employee's condition.
WY Stat § 27-14-605 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 27 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 14 - Worker's Compensation|Article 6 - Contested Cases|Section 27-14-605 - Application for Modification of Benefits; Time Limitation; Grounds; Termination of Case; Exceptions.

27-14-605. Application for modification of benefits; time limitation; grounds; termination of case; exceptions.| (a) If a determination is made in favor of or on behalf of an employee for any benefits under this act, an application may be made to the division by any party within four (4) years from the date of the last payment for additional benefits or for a modification of the amount of benefits on the ground of increase or decrease of incapacity due solely to the injury, or upon grounds of mistake or fraud. The division may, upon the same grounds and within the same time period, apply for modification of medical and disability benefits to a hearing examiner or the medical commission, as appropriate.  (b) Any right to benefits shall be terminated and is no longer under the jurisdiction of this act if a claim for any benefit is not filed with the division within the four (4) year limitation prescribed under subsection (a) of this section.  (c) A claim for medical benefits which would otherwise be terminated under subsection (b) of this section and barred under W.S. 27-14-503(a) and (b) may be paid by the division if the claimant:  (i) Submits medical reports to the division substantiating his claim;  (ii) Proves by competent medical authority and to a reasonable degree of medical certainty that the condition is directly related to the original injury; and  (iii) Submits to an examination by a health care provider selected by the division and results of the examination validate his claim.
WY Stat § 27-14-606 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 27 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 14 - Worker's Compensation|Article 6 - Contested Cases|Section 27-14-606 - Determination and Awards Are Administrative Determination as to All Parties; Notice and Hearing Requirements.

27-14-606. Determination and awards are administrative determination as to all parties; notice and hearing requirements.| Each determination or award within the meaning of this act is an administrative determination of the rights of the employer, the employee and the disposition of money within the worker's compensation account as to all matters involved. No determination shall be final without notice and opportunity for hearing as required by this act.
WY Stat § 27-14-607 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 27 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 14 - Worker's Compensation|Article 6 - Contested Cases|Section 27-14-607 - Rights of Director to Defend Against Claim; No Waiver.

27-14-607. Rights of director to defend against claim; no waiver.| The director or his designee may for any reason appear before the hearing examiner or in the district court and defend against any claim and shall in all respects have the same rights of defense as the employer. Failure to contest a claim does not constitute waiver by the director of his right to participate in further proceedings concerning the award where he does not appear and defend at the original hearing or trial.
WY Stat § 27-14-608 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 27 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 14 - Worker's Compensation|Article 6 - Contested Cases|Section 27-14-608 - Attorney Fees; Penalty for Violation.

27-14-608. Attorney fees; penalty for violation.| (a) If the hearing examiner under W.S. 27-14-602(d) or the district court or supreme court under W.S. 27-14-615 set a fee for any person for representing a claimant under this act excluding a health care provider, the person shall not receive any additional fee from the claimant.  (b) Any person violating this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not more than seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), imprisonment in the county jail for a term not to exceed six (6) months, or both.
WY Stat § 27-14-609 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 27 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 14 - Worker's Compensation|Article 6 - Contested Cases|Section 27-14-609 - Periodic Review of Temporary Total Award; Physical Examination After Temporary Total Award; Purpose; Report to Division.

27-14-609. Periodic review of temporary total award; physical examination after temporary total award; purpose; report to division.| (a) The division shall review every award for temporary total disability under W.S. 27-14-404 at least once every six (6) months. Upon request by the employer or division, an employee awarded compensation for temporary total disability shall submit to medical examination by a health care provider at a place designated by the employer or division which is reasonably convenient for the employee. The employee may have a licensed health care provider present of his own selection at his own expense.  (b) The results of the examination shall be reported to the division. The division, without delay, shall forward copies to the employer and employee. If after consideration of all medical reports in the case the division determines that the employee has recovered to the extent that temporary total disability no longer applies and his earning ability is substantially restored, compensation shall be discontinued in accordance with W.S. 27-14-404 unless written objection is filed by the employer or employee with the division within ten (10) days from the date of notice.  (c) If an employee refuses to submit to or obstructs the examination, his right to monthly payments shall be suspended until the examination has taken place. No compensation shall be paid during the period of refusal.
WY Stat § 27-14-610 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 27 - Labor and Employment|Chapter 14 - Worker's Compensation|Article 6 - Contested Cases|Section 27-14-610 - Health Care Providers Required to Testify; Refusal; Privilege Inapplicable.

27-14-610. Health care providers required to testify; refusal; privilege inapplicable.| If directed under this act, any health care provider providing professional attention to an employee may be required to testify before the hearing examiner or any court, provide written reports and attend depositions in a professional capacity. Any health care provider refusing to comply with this section shall forfeit any remuneration or award under this act for services rendered or facilities provided the injured employee. The law of privileged communication between health care provider and patient shall not apply.