Worker's Compensation System (IC 22-3-1 through IC 22-3-12)

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Indiana Code Title 22, Article 3 - Worker's Compensation System (IC 22-3-1 through IC 22-3-12) is a state statute published by Indiana General Assembly (iga.in.gov). It is one of the Indiana documents that insurance license exam questions are written from, including indiana property & casualty practice questions. This page summarizes it and points to the official version, which is the text to rely on.

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• IC § 22-3-2-6 (Worker's Compensation; Exclusive Remedies)

  “Sec. 6. The rights and remedies granted to an employee subject to IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-6 on account of personal injury or death by accident shall exclude all other rights and remedies of such employee, the employee's personal representatives, dependents, or next of kin, at common law or...”

• IC § 22-3-6-1(b) (Worker's Compensation; Definitions; "Employee")

  “(b) "Employee" means every person, including a minor, in the service of another, under any contract of hire or apprenticeship, written or implied, except one whose employment is both casual and not in the usual course of the trade, business, occupation, or profession of the employer.”

• IC § 22-3-2-14.5(h) (Independent Contractor Electing Exemption; Certificate of Exemption; Duties of the Hirer and the Carrier)

  “(h) A person who contracts for services of another person not covered by IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-6 to perform work must secure a copy of a stamped certificate of exemption filed under this section from the person hired. A person may not require a person who has provided a stamped certificate to...”

• IC § 22-3-2-5(a) (Worker's Compensation; Insurance; Certificates Authorizing Carrying of Risk Without Insurance)

  “Sec. 5. (a) Every employer who is bound by the compensation provisions of IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-6, except the state, counties, townships, cities, towns, school cities, school towns, other municipal corporations, state institutions, state boards, state commissions, banks, trust companies, and...”

• IC § 22-3-2-8 (Worker's Compensation; Qualifications; Burden of Proof)

  “Sec. 8. No compensation is allowed for an injury or death due to the employee's knowingly self-inflicted injury, his intoxication, his commission of an offense, his knowing failure to use a safety appliance, his knowing failure to obey a reasonable written or printed rule of the employer which has...”

• IC § 22-3-2-14(b) (Worker's Compensation; Contractors; Liability of the Person Contracting for the Work)

  “(b) The state, any political division thereof, any municipal corporation, any corporation, limited liability company, partnership, or person, contracting for the performance of any work exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000) in value by a contractor subject to the compensation provisions of IC...”

• IC § 22-3-2-13(b) (Worker's Compensation; Claims Against Third Persons; Recovery Without Having Drawn Compensation)

  “(b) In the event the injured employee or the employee's dependents, not having received compensation or services and products or death benefits from the employer or the employer's compensation insurance carrier, shall procure a judgment against the other party for injury or death, which judgment is...”

• IC § 22-3-3-1 (Worker's Compensation; Notice of Injury; Time)

  “Sec. 1. Unless the employer or his representative shall have actual knowledge of the occurrence of an injury or death at the time thereof or shall acquire such knowledge afterward, the injured employee or his dependents, as soon as practicable after the injury or death resulting therefrom, shall...”

• IC § 22-3-2-20 (Worker's Compensation; Place of Accident)

  “Sec. 20. Every employer and employee under IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-6 shall be bound by the provisions of IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-6 whether injury by accident or death resulting from such injury occurs within the state or in some other state or in a foreign country.”

• IC § 22-3-2-9(a) (Worker's Compensation; Exempt Employees; Employers and Contractors)

  “Sec. 9. (a) IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-6 shall not apply to: (1) casual laborers (as defined in IC 22-3-6-1); (2) farm or agricultural employees; (3) household employees; or (4) a person who enters into an independent contractor agreement with a nonprofit corporation that is recognized as tax exempt...”

• IC § 22-3-5-5(c)(4) (Worker's Compensation; Policy Provisions; Direct Promise to the Person Entitled)

  “(4) This insurer will promptly pay to the person entitled to the same all benefits conferred by IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-6, including physician's fees, nurse's charges, hospital services, hospital supplies, burial expenses, and all installments of compensation or death benefits that may be awarded...”

• IC § 22-3-5-5(b) (Worker's Compensation; Policies Presumed to Cover All Employees; Limiting Provisions Void)

  “(b) All policies of insurance companies and of reciprocal insurance associations insuring the payment of compensation under IC 22-3-2 through IC 22-3-6 are conclusively presumed to cover all the employees and the entire compensation liability of the insured. Any provision in any policy attempting...”

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