Alaska Administrative Code › Title 8 - Labor and Workforce Development › Part 3 - Workers' Compensation › Chapter 45 - Compensation, Medical Benefits, and Proceedings Before the Alaska Workers' Compensation Board › 8 AAC 45.900 - Definitions

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) In this chapter
(1) "Act" means the Alaska Workers'
				Compensation Act, as amended,
				AS
				23.30.005-23.30.270;
(2) "board" means (A) hearing officer under
				8 AAC 45.071 or (B) any single three-member panel, or a
				quorum thereof, of the Alaska Workers' Compensation Board;
(3) "carrier" means an insurance carrier
				meeting the requirements of
				AS
				23.30.025 with respect to authorization to
				provide insurance fulfilling the obligation of an employer to secure the
				payment of compensation under the Act;
(4) "chair" means the commissioner or any
				person designated by the commissioner to preside as board chair in a particular
				proceeding;
(5) "claim" includes
				any matter over which the board has jurisdiction;
(6) "commissioner" means the commissioner of
				the Department of Labor and Workforce Development;
(7) "department" means the Department of
				Labor and Workforce Development of the state;
(8) "division" means the division of workers'
				compensation within the administrative branch of the Department of Labor and
				Workforce Development;
(9)
				"effecting settlement" means the ability to timely pay all medical benefits and
				timely pay compensation in accordance with
				AS
				23.30.155;
(10) "executive officer" means the president,
				vice-president, secretary, treasurer, or a corporate employee who is
				responsible for the corporation's affairs generally, has a close connection
				with the board of directors and other officers and who is specifically
				designated as an executive officer by the articles of incorporation or
				corporation bylaws;
(11) "Smallwood
				objection" means an objection to the introduction into evidence of written
				medical reports in place of direct testimony by a physician; see Commercial
				Union Insurance Companies v. Smallwood, 550 P.2d 1261 (Alaska 1976);
(12) "treating physician" means the physician
				designated by the employee as the person responsible for coordinating the
				medical treatment;
(13) "designee"
				means a person authorized by the board to act on the board's behalf or by the
				commissioner to act on the commissioner's behalf;
(14) "cleaning person" means a person who
(A) cleans only a personal dwelling unit, as
				opposed to business or commercial units;
(B) is hired directly by the owner or tenant
				entitled to occupy the personal dwelling unit being cleaned; and
(C) the owner or tenant for whom the person
				is cleaning actually lives in the personal dwelling unit being
				cleaned.
(15) "provider"
				unless the statutory context requires otherwise,
(A) means any physician, pharmacist, dentist,
				or other health service worker or any hospital, clinic, or other facility
				licensed under AS 08 to furnish medical or dental services, including
				chiropractic, physical therapy, and mental health services;
(B) includes an out-of-state person or
				facility that meets the requirements of this section and is otherwise qualified
				to be licensed under AS 08.
(16) "failure to insure" means a person,
				business, or entity utilizing employee A labor while uninsured, for working
				compensation liability.