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AK Stat § 23.30.098 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 30. Alaska Workers' Compensation Act|Article 2. Duties of Employer.|Sec. 23.30.098. Regulations.

Under AS 44.62.245(a)(2), in adopting or amending regulations under this chapter, the department may incorporate future amended versions of a document or reference material incorporated by reference if the document or reference material is one of the following: (1) Current Procedural Terminology Codes, produced by the American Medical Association; (2) Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System, produced by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; (3) International Classification of Diseases, published by the World Health Organization; (4) Relative Value Guide, produced by the American Society of Anesthesiologists; (5) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, produced by the American Psychiatric Association; (6) Current Dental Terminology, published by the American Dental Association; (7) Resource-Based Relative Value Scale, produced by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; (8) Ambulatory Payment Classifications, produced by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; (9) Medicare Severity Diagnosis Related Groups, produced by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; (10) International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Clinical Modification, developed by the National Center for Health Statistics; (11) Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory Services, produced by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; (12) Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Supplies, produced by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; (13) Payment Allowance Limits for Medicare Part B Drugs, Average Sale Price, produced by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; or (14) Ambulance Fee Schedule, produced by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
AK Stat § 23.30.100 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 30. Alaska Workers' Compensation Act|Article 3. Compensation Proceedings.|Sec. 23.30.100. Notice of injury or death.

(a) Notice of an injury or death in respect to which compensation is payable under this chapter shall be given within 30 days after the date of such injury or death to the employer. (b) The notice must be in a format prescribed by the director and contain the name and address of the employee, a statement of the time, place, nature, and cause of the injury or death, and authority to release records of medical treatment for the injury or death, and be signed by the employee or by a person on behalf of the employee, or, in case of death, by a person claiming to be entitled to compensation for the death or by a person on behalf of that person. (c) Notice shall be given to the employer by delivering it to the employer or by sending it by mail addressed to the employer at the employer's last known place of business. If the employer is a partnership, the notice may be given to a partner, if a limited liability company, the notice may be given to a member, or if a corporation, the notice may be given to an agent or officer on whom legal process may be served or who is in charge of the business in the place where the injury occurred. (d) Failure to give notice does not bar a claim under this chapter (1) if the employer, an agent of the employer in charge of the business in the place where the injury occurred, or the carrier had knowledge of the injury or death and the board determines that the employer or carrier has not been prejudiced by failure to give notice; (2) if the board excuses the failure on the ground that for some satisfactory reason notice could not be given; (3) unless objection to the failure is raised before the board at the first hearing of a claim for compensation in respect to the injury or death.
AK Stat § 23.30.105 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 30. Alaska Workers' Compensation Act|Article 3. Compensation Proceedings.|Sec. 23.30.105. Time for filing of claims.

(a) The right to compensation for disability under this chapter is barred unless a claim for it is filed within two years after the employee has knowledge of the nature of the employee's disability and its relation to the employment and after disablement. However, the maximum time for filing the claim in any event other than arising out of an occupational disease shall be four years from the date of injury, and the right to compensation for death is barred unless a claim therefor is filed within one year after the death, except that, if payment of compensation has been made without an award on account of the injury or death, a claim may be filed within two years after the date of the last payment of benefits under AS 23.30.041, 23.30.180, 23.30.185, 23.30.190, 23.30.200, or 23.30.215. It is additionally provided that, in the case of latent defects pertinent to and causing compensable disability, the injured employee has full right to claim as shall be determined by the board, time limitations notwithstanding. (b) Failure to file a claim within the period prescribed in (a) of this section is not a bar to compensation unless objection to the failure is made at the first hearing of the claim in which all parties in interest are given reasonable notice and opportunity to be heard. (c) If a person who is entitled to compensation under this chapter is mentally incompetent or a minor, the provisions of (a) of this section are not applicable so long as the person has no guardian or other authorized representative, but are applicable in the case of a person who is mentally incompetent or a minor from the date of appointment of a guardian or other representative, or, in the case of a minor, if no guardian is appointed before the person becomes of age, from the date the person becomes of age. (d) If recovery is denied to a person, in a suit brought at law or in admiralty to recover damages in respect to injury or death, on the ground that the person was an employee and that the defendant is an employer within the meaning of this chapter and that the employer has secured compensation to the employee under this chapter, the limitation of time prescribed in (a) of this section begins to run only from the date of termination of the suit.
AK Stat § 23.30.107 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 30. Alaska Workers' Compensation Act|Article 3. Compensation Proceedings.|Sec. 23.30.107. Release of information.

(a) Upon written request, an employee shall provide written authority to the employer, carrier, rehabilitation specialist, or reemployment benefits administrator to obtain medical and rehabilitation information relative to the employee's injury. The request must include notice of the employee's right to file a petition for a protective order with the division and must be served by certified mail to the employee's address on the notice of injury or by hand delivery to the employee. This subsection may not be construed to authorize an employer, carrier, rehabilitation specialist, or reemployment benefits administrator to request medical or other information that is not applicable to the employee's injury. (b) Medical or rehabilitation records, and the employee's name, address, social security number, electronic mail address, and telephone number contained on any record, in an employee's file maintained by the division or held by the board or the commission are not public records subject to public inspection and copying under AS 40.25.100 - 40.25.295. This subsection does not prohibit (1) the reemployment benefits administrator, the division, the board, the commission, or the department from releasing medical or rehabilitation records in an employee's file, without the employee's consent, to a physician providing medical services under AS 23.30.095(k) or 23.30.110(g), a party to a claim filed by the employee, or a governmental agency; or (2) the quoting or discussing of medical or rehabilitation records contained in an employee's file during a hearing on a claim for compensation or in a decision or order of the board or commission. (c) The division may not assemble, or provide information respecting, individual records for commercial purposes that are outside the scope of this chapter. (d) An employee may elect to authorize the disclosure of the employee's name, address, social security number, electronic mail address, and telephone number contained in a record described in (b) of this section by signing a declaration on a form provided by the division.
AK Stat § 23.30.115 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 30. Alaska Workers' Compensation Act|Article 3. Compensation Proceedings.|Sec. 23.30.115. Attendance and fees of witnesses.

(a) A person is not required to attend as a witness in a proceeding before the board at a place more than 100 miles from the person's place of residence, unless the person's lawful mileage and fee for one day's attendance is first paid or tendered to the person; but the testimony of a witness may be taken by deposition or interrogatories according to the Rules of Civil Procedure. (b) A witness summoned in a proceeding before the board or whose deposition is taken shall receive the same fees and mileage as a witness in the superior court.
AK Stat § 23.30.120 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 30. Alaska Workers' Compensation Act|Article 3. Compensation Proceedings.|Sec. 23.30.120. Presumptions.

(a) In a proceeding for the enforcement of a claim for compensation under this chapter it is presumed, in the absence of substantial evidence to the contrary, that (1) the claim comes within the provisions of this chapter; (2) sufficient notice of the claim has been given; (3) the injury was not proximately caused by the intoxication of the injured employee or proximately caused by the employee being under the influence of drugs unless the drugs were taken as prescribed by the employee's physician; (4) the injury was not occasioned by the wilful intention of the injured employee to injure or kill self or another. (b) If delay in giving notice is excused by the board under AS 23.30.100(d)(2), the burden of proof of the validity of the claim shifts to the employee notwithstanding the provisions of (a) of this section. (c) The presumption of compensability established in (a) of this section does not apply to a mental injury resulting from work-related stress.
AK Stat § 23.30.122 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 30. Alaska Workers' Compensation Act|Article 3. Compensation Proceedings.|Sec. 23.30.122. Credibility of witnesses.

The board has the sole power to determine the credibility of a witness. A finding by the board concerning the weight to be accorded a witness's testimony, including medical testimony and reports, is conclusive even if the evidence is conflicting or susceptible to contrary conclusions. The findings of the board are subject to the same standard of review as a jury's finding in a civil action.
AK Stat § 23.30.125 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 30. Alaska Workers' Compensation Act|Article 3. Compensation Proceedings.|Sec. 23.30.125. Administrative review of compensation order.

(a) A compensation order becomes effective when filed with the office of the board as provided in AS 23.30.110, and, unless proceedings to reconsider, suspend, or set aside the order are instituted as provided in this chapter, the order becomes final on the 31st day after it is filed. (b) Notwithstanding other provisions of law, a decision or order of the board is subject to review by the commission as provided in this chapter. (c) If a compensation order is not in accordance with law or fact, the order may be suspended or set aside, in whole or in part, through proceedings in the commission brought by a party in interest against all other parties to the proceedings before the board. The payment of the amounts required by an award may not be stayed pending a final decision in the proceeding unless, upon application for a stay, the commission, on hearing, after not less than three days' notice to the parties in interest, allows the stay of payment, in whole or in part, where the party filing the application would otherwise suffer irreparable damage. Continuing future periodic compensation payments may not be stayed without a showing by the appellant of irreparable damage and the existence of the probability of the merits of the appeal being decided adversely to the recipient of the compensation payments. The order of the commission allowing a stay must contain a specific finding, based upon evidence submitted to the commission and identified by reference to the evidence, that irreparable damage would result to the party applying for a stay and specifying the nature of the damage. (d) Proceedings for reconsidering, suspending, setting aside, or enforcing a compensation order, whether rejecting a claim or making an award, may not be instituted, except as provided in this chapter.
AK Stat § 23.30.127 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 30. Alaska Workers' Compensation Act|Article 3. Compensation Proceedings.|Sec. 23.30.127. Appeals to commission.

(a) A party in interest may appeal a compensation order issued by the board to the commission within 30 days after the compensation order is filed with the office of the board under AS 23.30.110. The director may intervene in an appeal. If a party in interest is not represented by counsel and the compensation order concerns an unsettled question of law, the director may file an appeal to obtain a ruling on the question by the commission. (b) An appeal is initiated by filing with the office of the commission (1) a signed notice of appeal specifying the compensation order appealed from; (2) a statement of the grounds upon which the appeal is taken; and (3) other material the commission may by regulation require. (c) A cross-appeal may be initiated by filing with the office of the commission a signed notice of cross-appeal within 30 days after the decision is filed or within 15 days after service of notice of an appeal, whichever is later. The notice of cross-appeal shall specify the compensation order appealed from and the grounds upon which the cross-appeal is taken. (d) The office of the commission may charge a fee, not to exceed $100, for filing appeals and cross-appeals, except that the office of the commission may not charge a fee if the appellant is the state or a political subdivision of the state. The commission may require an appellant to pay the costs of the transcript of hearing and the preparation of the record on appeal. The commission may require cross-appellants or intervenors to share in the costs. (e) If a request for reconsideration of a board decision was timely filed with the office of the board, the notice of appeal must be filed within 30 days after the reconsideration decision is mailed to the parties or the date the request for reconsideration is considered denied in the absence of any action on the request, whichever is earlier. (f) The commission may require written briefs and make other rules and orders to facilitate the business of the commission and advance the prompt, fair, and just disposition of appeals.
AK Stat § 23.30.129 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 30. Alaska Workers' Compensation Act|Article 3. Compensation Proceedings.|Sec. 23.30.129. Judicial review of commission orders.

(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of AS 44.62.560, orders of the commission may not be appealed to the superior court. Consistent with AS 22.05.010(b), final decisions of the commission may be appealed to the supreme court, and other orders may be reviewed by the supreme court as provided by the Alaska Rules of Appellate Procedure. (b) A finding by the commission concerning the weight to be accorded a witness's testimony, including medical testimony and reports, is conclusive even if the evidence is conflicting or susceptible to contrary conclusions. The commission's findings of fact may be reversed on appeal if not supported by substantial evidence in light of the whole record.
AK Stat § 23.30.130 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 30. Alaska Workers' Compensation Act|Article 3. Compensation Proceedings.|Sec. 23.30.130. Modification of awards.

(a) Upon its own initiative, or upon the application of any party in interest on the ground of a change in conditions, including, for the purposes of AS 23.30.175, a change in residence, or because of a mistake in its determination of a fact, the board may, before one year after the date of the last payment of compensation benefits under AS 23.30.180, 23.30.185, 23.30.190, 23.30.200, or 23.30.215, whether or not a compensation order has been issued, or before one year after the rejection of a claim, review a compensation case under the procedure prescribed in respect of claims in AS 23.30.110. Under AS 23.30.110 the board may issue a new compensation order which terminates, continues, reinstates, increases, or decreases the compensation, or award compensation. (b) A new order does not affect compensation previously paid, except that an award increasing the compensation rate may be made effective from the date of the injury, and if part of the compensation due or to become due is unpaid, an award decreasing the compensation rate may be made effective from the date of the injury, and payment made earlier in excess of the decreased rate shall be deducted from the unpaid compensation, in the manner the board determines.
AK Stat § 23.30.135 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 30. Alaska Workers' Compensation Act|Article 3. Compensation Proceedings.|Sec. 23.30.135. Procedure before the board.

(a) In making an investigation or inquiry or conducting a hearing the board is not bound by common law or statutory rules of evidence or by technical or formal rules of procedure, except as provided by this chapter. The board may make its investigation or inquiry or conduct its hearing in the manner by which it may best ascertain the rights of the parties. Declarations of a deceased employee concerning the injury in respect to which the investigation or inquiry is being made or the hearing conducted shall be received in evidence and are, if corroborated by other evidence, sufficient to establish the injury. (b) All testimony given during a hearing before the board shall be recorded, but need not be transcribed unless further review is initiated. Hearings before the board shall be open to the public.
AK Stat § 23.30.140 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 30. Alaska Workers' Compensation Act|Article 3. Compensation Proceedings.|Sec. 23.30.140. Appointment of guardian by court.

The director may require the appointment of a guardian or other representative by a competent court for any person who is mentally incompetent or a minor to receive compensation payable to the person under this chapter and to exercise the powers granted to or to perform the duties required of the person under this chapter. If the director does not require the appointment of a guardian to receive the compensation of a minor, appointment for this purpose is not necessary.
AK Stat § 23.30.145 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 30. Alaska Workers' Compensation Act|Article 3. Compensation Proceedings.|Sec. 23.30.145. Attorney fees.

(a) Fees for legal services rendered in respect to a claim are not valid unless approved by the board, and the fees may not be less than 25 percent on the first $1,000 of compensation or part of the first $1,000 of compensation, and 10 percent of all sums in excess of $1,000 of compensation. When the board advises that a claim has been controverted, in whole or in part, the board may direct that the fees for legal services be paid by the employer or carrier in addition to compensation awarded; the fees may be allowed only on the amount of compensation controverted and awarded. When the board advises that a claim has not been controverted, but further advises that bona fide legal services have been rendered in respect to the claim, then the board shall direct the payment of the fees out of the compensation awarded. In determining the amount of fees the board shall take into consideration the nature, length, and complexity of the services performed, transportation charges, and the benefits resulting from the services to the compensation beneficiaries. (b) If an employer fails to file timely notice of controversy or fails to pay compensation or medical and related benefits within 15 days after it becomes due or otherwise resists the payment of compensation or medical and related benefits and if the claimant has employed an attorney in the successful prosecution of the claim, the board shall make an award to reimburse the claimant for the costs in the proceedings, including reasonable attorney fees. The award is in addition to the compensation or medical and related benefits ordered. (c) If proceedings are had for review of a compensation or medical and related benefits order before a court, the court may allow or increase an attorney's fees. The fees are in addition to compensation or medical and related benefits ordered and shall be paid as the court may direct.
AK Stat § 23.30.150 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 30. Alaska Workers' Compensation Act|Article 4. Payment of Compensation.|Sec. 23.30.150. Commencement of compensation.

Compensation may not be allowed for the first three days of the disability, except the benefits provided for in AS 23.30.095; if, however, the injury results in disability of more than 28 days, compensation shall be allowed from the date of the disability.
AK Stat § 23.30.160 (2021)
2021 Alaska Statutes|Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation|Chapter 30. Alaska Workers' Compensation Act|Article 4. Payment of Compensation.|Sec. 23.30.160. Assignment and exemption of claims.

(a) An assignment, release, or commutation of compensation or benefits due or payable under this chapter, except as provided by this chapter, is not valid. (b) Benefits payable under this chapter are exempt from levy to enforce the collection of a debt as provided in AS 09.38 (exemptions). This exemption may not be waived.