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IN Code § 22-3-3-27 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 3. Worker's Compensation System|Chapter 3. Worker's Compensation: Notice of Injury; Treatment; Compensation Schedule; Payments|22-3-3-27. Jurisdiction; Modification of Award

Sec. 27. (a) The power and jurisdiction of the worker's compensation board over each case shall be continuing and from time to time it may, upon its own motion or upon the application of either party, on account of a change in conditions, make such modification or change in the award ending, lessening, continuing, or extending the payments previously awarded, either by agreement or upon hearing, as it may deem just, subject to the maximum and minimum provided for in IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-6.(b) Upon making any such change, the board shall immediately send to each of the parties a copy of the modified award. No such modification shall affect the previous award as to any money paid thereunder.(c) The board shall not make any such modification upon its own motion nor shall any application therefor be filed by either party after the expiration of two (2) years from the last day for which compensation was paid. The board may at any time correct any clerical error in any finding or award.Formerly: Acts 1929, c.172, s.45; Acts 1947, c.162, s.12; Acts 1963, c.387, s.13. As amended by P.L.144-1986, SEC.37; P.L.28-1988, SEC.33; P.L.134-2006, SEC.7.
IN Code § 22-3-3-28 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 3. Worker's Compensation System|Chapter 3. Worker's Compensation: Notice of Injury; Treatment; Compensation Schedule; Payments|22-3-3-28. Children and Minors; Direct Payments

Sec. 28. (a) When the aggregate payments of compensation, awarded by agreement or upon hearing to an employee or dependent under eighteen (18) years of age, do not exceed one hundred dollars ($100), the payment thereof may be made directly to such employee or dependent, except when the worker's compensation board shall order otherwise.(b) Whenever the aggregate payments of compensation, due to any person under eighteen (18) years of age, exceed one hundred dollars ($100), the payment thereof shall be made to a trustee, appointed by the circuit or superior court, or to a duly qualified guardian, or to a parent upon the order of the worker's compensation board. The payment of compensation, due to any person eighteen (18) years of age or over, may be made directly to such person.Formerly: Acts 1929, c.172, s.46. As amended by P.L.28-1988, SEC.34.
IN Code § 22-3-3-29 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 3. Worker's Compensation System|Chapter 3. Worker's Compensation: Notice of Injury; Treatment; Compensation Schedule; Payments|22-3-3-29. Injured Employee or Dependent Under Guardianship

Sec. 29. If any injured employee or a dependent is under guardianship at the time when any right or privilege accrues to the employee or dependent under IC 22-3-2, IC 22-3-3, IC 22-3-4, IC 22-3-5, or IC 22-3-6, the employee or dependent's guardian shall claim and exercise the right or privilege of the employee or dependent.Formerly: Acts 1929, c.172, s.47. As amended by P.L.144-1986, SEC.38; P.L.33-1989, SEC.19.
IN Code § 22-3-3-30 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 3. Worker's Compensation System|Chapter 3. Worker's Compensation: Notice of Injury; Treatment; Compensation Schedule; Payments|22-3-3-30. Incompetent Persons; Limitation of Actions

Sec. 30. No limitation of time provided in IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-6 shall run against any person who is mentally incompetent or a minor so long as he has no guardian or trustee.Formerly: Acts 1929, c.172, s.48; Acts 1969, c.94, s.5. As amended by P.L.144-1986, SEC.39.
IN Code § 22-3-3-31 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 3. Worker's Compensation System|Chapter 3. Worker's Compensation: Notice of Injury; Treatment; Compensation Schedule; Payments|22-3-3-31. Joint Service of Two or More Employers; Apportionment of Award

Sec. 31. Whenever any employee for whose injury or death compensation is payable under IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-6 shall at the time of the injury be in the joint service of two (2) or more employers subject to IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-6, such employers shall contribute to the payment of such compensation in proportion to their wage liability to such employees; provided, however, that nothing in this section shall prevent any reasonable arrangements between such employers for a different distribution as between themselves of the ultimate burden of compensation.Formerly: Acts 1929, c.172, s.49. As amended by P.L.144-1986, SEC.40.
IN Code § 22-3-3-32 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 3. Worker's Compensation System|Chapter 3. Worker's Compensation: Notice of Injury; Treatment; Compensation Schedule; Payments|22-3-3-32. Construction of Article

Sec. 32. The provisions of this article may not be construed to result in an award of benefits in which the number of weeks paid and to be paid for temporary total disability, temporary partial disability, or permanent total disability combined exceeds five hundred (500) weeks. This section shall not be construed to prevent a person who is permanently totally disabled from applying for an award under IC 22-3-3-13. However, in case of permanent total disability resulting from an injury occurring on or after January 1, 1998, the minimum total benefit shall not be less than seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000).As added by P.L.258-1997(ss), SEC.8.
IN Code § 22-3-4-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 3. Worker's Compensation System|Chapter 4. Worker's Compensation: Administration and Procedures|22-3-4-1. Industrial Board; Office Space; Furniture and Supplies; Meetings

Sec. 1. The board shall be provided with adequate offices in the capitol or some other suitable building in the city of Indianapolis in which the records shall be kept and its official business be transacted during regular business hours; it shall also be provided with necessary office furniture, stationery and other supplies.The board or any member thereof may hold sessions at any place within the state as may be deemed necessary.Formerly: Acts 1929, c.172, s.54.
IN Code § 22-3-4-2 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 3. Worker's Compensation System|Chapter 4. Worker's Compensation: Administration and Procedures|22-3-4-2. Rules; Subpoenas; Service; Hearings

Sec. 2. (a) The worker's compensation board may make rules not inconsistent with IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-6 for carrying out the provisions of IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-6. Processes and procedures under IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-6 shall be as summary and simple as reasonably may be. The board or any member of the board shall have the power for the purpose of IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-6 to subpoena witnesses, administer or cause to have administered oaths, and to examine or cause to have examined such parts of the books and records of the parties to a proceeding as relate to questions in dispute.(b) The county sheriff shall serve all subpoenas of the board and shall receive the same fees as provided by law for like service in civil actions. Each witness who appears in obedience to such subpoenas of the board shall receive for attendance the fees and mileage for witnesses in civil cases in the courts.(c) The circuit or superior court shall, on application of the board or any member of the board, enforce by proper proceedings the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production and examination of books, papers, and records.Formerly: Acts 1929, c.172, s.55. As amended by P.L.144-1986, SEC.41; P.L.28-1988, SEC.35.
IN Code § 22-3-4-3 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 3. Worker's Compensation System|Chapter 4. Worker's Compensation: Administration and Procedures|22-3-4-3. Inspection of Records; Confidential Information; Destruction of Records

Sec. 3. (a) The board shall prepare and cause to be printed, and upon request furnish free of charge to any employer or employee, such blank forms and literature as it shall deem requisite to facilitate or promote the efficient administration of this chapter, IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-3, and IC 22-3-5 through IC 22-3-6. The accident reports and reports of attending physicians shall be the private records of the board, which shall be open to the inspection of the employer, the employee and their legal representatives, but not the public unless, in the opinion of the board, the public interest shall so require.(b) In order to prevent the accumulation of unnecessary and useless files of papers, the board may destroy or otherwise dispose of under IC 5-15-5.1-14 all papers that have been on file for more than two (2) years, when there is no claim for compensation pending, or, when compensation has been awarded either by agreement or upon hearing, and more than two (2) years have elapsed since the termination of the compensation period as fixed by such board.Formerly: Acts 1929, c.172, s.56. As amended by Acts 1979, P.L.17, SEC.33; P.L.121-1995, SEC.2; P.L.139-2020, SEC.4.
IN Code § 22-3-4-4 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 3. Worker's Compensation System|Chapter 4. Worker's Compensation: Administration and Procedures|22-3-4-4. Awards; Private Agreements; Approval

Sec. 4. If after seven (7) days from the date of the injury or at any time in case of death, the employer and the injured employee or his dependents reach an agreement in regard to compensation under IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-6, a memorandum of the agreement in the form prescribed by the worker's compensation board shall be filed with the board; otherwise such agreement shall be voidable by the employee or his dependent. If approved by the board, thereupon the memorandum shall for all purposes be enforceable by court decree as specified in section 9 of this chapter. Such agreement shall be approved by said board only when the terms conform to the provisions of IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-6.Formerly: Acts 1929, c.172, s.57. As amended by P.L.144-1986, SEC.42; P.L.28-1988, SEC.36.
IN Code § 22-3-4-4.5 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 3. Worker's Compensation System|Chapter 4. Worker's Compensation: Administration and Procedures|22-3-4-4.5. Mediation of Claims; Fees and Charges

Sec. 4.5. (a) In addition to any other method available to the board to resolve a claim for compensation under IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-7, the board may, with the consent of all parties, mediate the claim using a mediator certified by the Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum. The board may not order the mediation of a claim without the consent of all parties.(b) The board shall establish by rule a schedule of fees and charges for a mediation conducted to resolve a claim for compensation under IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-7.As added by P.L.168-2011, SEC.6.
IN Code § 22-3-4-5 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 3. Worker's Compensation System|Chapter 4. Worker's Compensation: Administration and Procedures|22-3-4-5. Disputes; Hearings

Sec. 5. (a) If the employer and the injured employee or the injured employee's dependents disagree in regard to the compensation payable under IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-6 or, if they have reached such an agreement, which has been signed by them, filed with and approved by the worker's compensation board, and afterward disagree as to the continuance of payments under such agreement, or as to the period for which payments shall be made, or to the amount to be paid, because of a change in conditions since the making of such agreement, either party may then make an application to the board for the determination of the matters in dispute.(b) Upon the filing of such application, the board shall set the date of hearing, which shall be as early as practicable, and shall notify the employee, employer, and attorneys of record in the manner prescribed by the board of the time and place of all hearings and requests for continuances. The hearing of all claims for compensation, on account of injuries occurring within the state, shall be held in the county in which the injury occurred, in any adjoining county, except when the parties consent to a hearing elsewhere. Claims assigned to an individual board member that are considered to be of an emergency nature by that board member, may be heard in any county within the board member's jurisdiction.(c) All disputes arising under IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-6, if not settled by the agreement of the parties interested therein, with the approval of the board, shall be determined by the board.Formerly: Acts 1929, c.172, s.58; Acts 1959, c.360, s.1. As amended by P.L.144-1986, SEC.43; P.L.28-1988, SEC.37; P.L.95-1988, SEC.9; P.L.170-1991, SEC.10.
IN Code § 22-3-4-6 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 3. Worker's Compensation System|Chapter 4. Worker's Compensation: Administration and Procedures|22-3-4-6. Disputes; Summary Proceedings

Sec. 6. The board by any or all of its members shall hear the parties at issue, their representatives and witnesses, and shall determine the dispute in a summary manner. The award shall be filed with the record of proceedings, and a copy thereof shall immediately be sent to each of the employee, employer, and attorney of record in the dispute.Formerly: Acts 1929, c.172, s.59. As amended by P.L.95-1988, SEC.10.
IN Code § 22-3-4-7 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 3. Worker's Compensation System|Chapter 4. Worker's Compensation: Administration and Procedures|22-3-4-7. Disputes; Administrative Review

Sec. 7. If an application for review is made to the board within thirty (30) days from the date of the award made by less than all the members, the full board, if the first hearing was not held before the full board, shall review the evidence, or, if deemed advisable, hear the parties at issue, their representatives, and witnesses as soon as practicable and shall make an award and file the same with the finding of the facts on which it is based and send a copy thereof to each of the parties in dispute, in like manner as specified in section 6 of this chapter.Formerly: Acts 1929, c.172, s.60; Acts 1969, c.94, s.6. As amended by P.L.144-1986, SEC.44; P.L.258-1997(ss), SEC.9.
IN Code § 22-3-4-8 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 3. Worker's Compensation System|Chapter 4. Worker's Compensation: Administration and Procedures|22-3-4-8. Disputes; Awards; Appeals

Sec. 8. (a) An award of the board by less than all of the members as provided in section 6 of this chapter, if not reviewed as provided in section 7 of this chapter, shall be final and conclusive.(b) An award by the full board shall be conclusive and binding as to all questions of the fact, but either party to the dispute may, within thirty (30) days from the date of such award, appeal to the court of appeals for errors of law under the same terms and conditions as govern appeals in ordinary civil actions.(c) The board of its own motion may certify questions of law to said court of appeals for its decision and determination.(d) An assignment of errors that the award of the full board is contrary to law shall be sufficient to present both the sufficiency of the facts found to sustain the award and the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the finding of facts.(e) All such appeals and certified questions of law shall be submitted upon the date filed in the court of appeals, shall be advanced upon the docket of said court, and shall be determined at the earliest practicable date, without any extensions of time for filing briefs.(f) An award of the full board affirmed on appeal, by the employer, shall be increased thereby five percent (5%), and by order of the court may be increased ten percent (10%).Formerly: Acts 1929, c.172, s.61. As amended by P.L.144-1986, SEC.45.
IN Code § 22-3-4-9 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 3. Worker's Compensation System|Chapter 4. Worker's Compensation: Administration and Procedures|22-3-4-9. Contracts; Private Agreements; Appeals

Sec. 9. (a) Upon order of the worker's compensation board made after five (5) days notice is given to the opposite party, any party in interest may file in the circuit or superior court of the county in which the injury occurred a certified copy of the memorandum of agreement approved by the board, or of an order or decision of the board, or of an award of the full board unappealed from, or of an award of the full board affirmed upon an appeal, whereupon said court shall render judgment in accordance therewith and notify the parties. Such judgment shall have the same effect and all proceedings in relation thereto shall thereafter be the same as though said judgment had been rendered in a suit duly heard and determined by said court.(b) Any such judgment of said circuit or superior court unappealed from or affirmed on appeal or modified in obedience to the mandate of the court of appeals shall be modified to conform to any decision of the worker's compensation board ending, diminishing, or increasing any weekly payment under the provisions of IC 22-3-3-27 upon the presentation to it of a certified copy of such decision.Formerly: Acts 1929, c.172, s.62; Acts 1947, c.162, s.13. As amended by P.L.144-1986, SEC.46; P.L.28-1988, SEC.38.
IN Code § 22-3-4-10 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 3. Worker's Compensation System|Chapter 4. Worker's Compensation: Administration and Procedures|22-3-4-10. Actions and Proceedings; Costs

Sec. 10. In all proceedings before the worker's compensation board or in a court under IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-6, the costs shall be awarded and taxed as provided by law in ordinary civil actions in the circuit court.Formerly: Acts 1929, c.172, s.63. As amended by P.L.144-1986, SEC.47; P.L.28-1988, SEC.39.
IN Code § 22-3-4-11 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 3. Worker's Compensation System|Chapter 4. Worker's Compensation: Administration and Procedures|22-3-4-11. Medical Examination; Physician or Surgeon

Sec. 11. The board or any member thereof may, upon the application of either party or upon its own motion, appoint a disinterested and duly qualified physician or surgeon to make any necessary medical examination of the employee and to testify in respect thereto. Said physician or surgeon shall be allowed traveling expenses and a reasonable fee to be fixed by the board.The fees and expenses of such physician or surgeon shall be paid by the state only on special order of the board or a member thereof.Formerly: Acts 1929, c.172, s.64; Acts 1963, c.387, s.14.
IN Code § 22-3-4-12 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 3. Worker's Compensation System|Chapter 4. Worker's Compensation: Administration and Procedures|22-3-4-12. Rates and Charges; Attorney's Fees; Payment

Sec. 12. Except as provided in section 12.1 of this chapter, the fees of attorneys and physicians and charges of nurses and hospitals for services under IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-6 shall be subject to the approval of the worker's compensation board. When any claimant for compensation is represented by an attorney in the prosecution of his claim, the worker's compensation board shall fix and state in the award, if compensation be awarded, the amount of the claimant's attorney's fees. The fee so fixed shall be binding upon both the claimant and his attorney, and the employer shall pay to the attorney out of the award the fee so fixed, and the receipt of the attorney therefor shall fully acquit the employer for an equal portion of the award; provided, that whenever the worker's compensation board shall determine upon hearing of a claim that the employer has acted in bad faith in adjusting and settling said award, or whenever the worker's compensation board shall determine upon hearing of a claim that the employer has not pursued the settlement of said claim with diligence, then the board shall, if compensation be awarded, fix the amount of the claimant's attorney's fees and such attorney fees shall be paid to the attorney and shall not be charged against the award to the claimant.Formerly: Acts 1929, c.172, s.65; Acts 1965, c.217, s.3. As amended by P.L.144-1986, SEC.48; P.L.258-1997(ss), SEC.10; P.L.1-2006, SEC.338.
IN Code § 22-3-4-12.1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 3. Worker's Compensation System|Chapter 4. Worker's Compensation: Administration and Procedures|22-3-4-12.1. Bad Faith in Adjusting or Settling Claim for Compensation; Awards; Attorney's Fees

Sec. 12.1. (a) The worker's compensation board, upon hearing a claim for benefits, has the exclusive jurisdiction to determine whether the employer, the employer's worker's compensation administrator, or the worker's compensation insurance carrier has acted with a lack of diligence, in bad faith, or has committed an independent tort in adjusting or settling the claim for compensation.(b) If lack of diligence, bad faith, or an independent tort is proven under subsection (a), the award to the claimant shall be at least five hundred dollars ($500), but not more than twenty thousand dollars ($20,000), depending upon the degree of culpability and the actual damages sustained.(c) An award under this section shall be paid by the employer, worker's compensation administrator, or worker's compensation insurance carrier responsible to the claimant for the lack of diligence, bad faith, or independent tort.(d) The worker's compensation board shall fix in addition to any award under this section the amount of attorney's fees payable with respect to an award made under this section. The attorney's fees may not exceed thirty-three and one-third percent (33 1/3%) of the amount of the award.(e) If the worker's compensation board makes an award under this section, it shall reduce the award to writing and forward a copy to the department of insurance for review under IC 27-4-1-4.5.(f) An award or awards to a claimant pursuant to subsection (b) shall not total more than twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) during the life of the claim for benefits arising from an accidental injury.As added by P.L.258-1997(ss), SEC.11. Amended by P.L.31-2000, SEC.5.
IN Code § 22-3-4-14 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 22. Labor and Safety|Article 3. Worker's Compensation System|Chapter 4. Worker's Compensation: Administration and Procedures|22-3-4-14. Awards; Termination; Reports

Sec. 14. Every employer paying compensation directly without insurance and every insurance carrier paying compensation in behalf of an employer shall, within ten (10) days from the termination of the compensation period fixed in any award against him or its insured, for an injury or death, either by the approval of an agreement or upon hearing, and within ten (10) days from the full redemption of any such award by the cash payment thereof in a lump sum as provided in IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-6, make such report or reports as the worker's compensation board may require.Formerly: Acts 1929, c.172, s.67. As amended by P.L.144-1986, SEC.49; P.L.28-1988, SEC.41.