§ 62-4-1 Medical and hospital expense
§ 62-4-1.1 Employer’s duties upon receipt of medical bill
§ 62-4-1.2 Fine for noncompliance
§ 62-4-1.3 Release of medical records
§ 62-4-2 Waiting period for temporary disability benefits
§ 62-4-3 Amount of temporary total disability compensation
§ 62-4-3.1 Annual computation of average weekly wage in state–Period for which applied
§ 62-4-5 Compensation for partial disability
§ 62-4-5.1 Compensation during period of rehabilitation–Procedure
§ 62-4-6 Additional compensation for specific bodily injuries
§ 62-4-7 Compensation for permanent total disability–Annual increase
§ 62-4-7.1 Prospective application of benefit increase in § 62-4-7
§ 62-4-8 Death resulting from injury–Payments to personal representative or beneficiaries ofdeceased
§ 62-4-8.1 Scholarships provided to certain persons receiving workers’ compensation benefits–Eligibility
§ 62-4-10 Installment payments of compensation
§ 62-4-10.1 Penalty for untimely payment of installments–Other remedies
§ 62-4-11 Specific bodily injuries–Death before full payment of installments–Payments todependents
§ 62-4-12 Injury resulting in death–Compensation to spouse or children–Remarriage–Full-time students
§ 62-4-12.1 Injury resulting in death–Compensation to spouse or children–Children not incustody of surviving spouse
§ 62-4-13 Injury resulting in death–Additional compensation for child under eighteen
§ 62-4-14 Injury resulting in death–No surviving spouse or children–Payment to dependentparent, grandparent, or minor sibling
§ 62-4-15 Injury resulting in death–Payments to dependent collateral heirs
§ 62-4-16 Burial and transportation expenses paid when death results from injury
§ 62-4-17 Installment payment of death benefits
§ 62-4-18 Death benefits–Payment to personal representative or beneficiaries–Distribution toheirs
§ 62-4-19 Payment of death benefits to personal representative–Release of employer fromobligation
§ 62-4-20 Payment of death benefits to surviving spouse for minor children–Conservatorshipnot required
§ 62-4-21 Spouse of deceased employee–Qualification for benefits
§ 62-4-22 Transfer of surviving spouse’s right to compensation to surviving child
§ 62-4-24 Employment for year preceding injury–Determination of average weekly wage
§ 62-4-25 Employment for less than year preceding injury–Determination of average weeklywage
§ 62-4-26 Computation of average weekly wage when other methods not feasible
§ 62-4-27 Seasonal employment–Determination of average weekly wage
§ 62-4-28 Employee earning no wages or less than day laborers–Computation of averageweekly wage
§ 62-4-29 Apportionment of compensation for subsequent injury
§ 62-4-29.1 “Claimant” defined for subsequent injury fund claims
§ 62-4-30 Determination of amount for each installment period
§ 62-4-31 Working week defined
§ 62-4-34.7 Administration of fund to continue until all valid claims approved, denied or settled–Claim for injury occurring after July 1, 2001, barred–Disposition of fund balance
§ 62-4-37 Injury or death due to willful misconduct of employee not compensable
§ 62-4-38 Right of action when third person is liable–Election by employee–Offset ofrecovered damages
§ 62-4-39 Compensation paid by employer–Reimbursement from damages recovered fromthird party
§ 62-4-40 Recovery by employer from third party–Excess held for employee
§ 62-4-41 Priority of rights to compensation
§ 62-4-42 Assignment of payments prohibited–Certain compensation exempt from claims ofcreditors
§ 62-4-43 Selection of medical practitioner or surgeon by employee
§ 62-4-44 Report to be submitted to employer and department by treating practitioner orsurgeon–Time limit
§ 62-4-45 Information about injury to be made available–Penalty for withholding information
§ 62-4-46 Benefits precluded by intentional misrepresentation of employee’s physical condition–Burden of proof
§ 62-4-47 Written request to stop payments–Fraud–Injury outside of employment
§ 62-4-48 Investigation of written request to stop payments
§ 62-4-49 Confidentiality of investigative records–Release–Misdemeanor
§ 62-4-50 Immunity for good faith written request of investigation–False written request asmisdemeanor
§ 62-4-51 Fraudulent workers’ compensation claims as misdemeanor
§ 62-4-52 Definition of terms
§ 62-4-53 Permanent total disability–Burden of proof–Moving expenses paid by employer incertain cases
§ 62-4-54 Determining usual and customary line of employment
§ 62-4-55 Suitable, substantial, and gainful employment defined
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Terms Used In South Dakota Codified Laws > Title 62 > Chapter 4 - Compensation for Injury or Death

  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Children: includes children by birth and by adoption. See South Dakota Codified Laws 2-14-2
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • employer: includes the state and any municipal corporation within the state or any political subdivision of this state, and any individual, firm, association, limited liability company, or corporation, or the receiver or trustee of the same, or the legal representative of a deceased employer, using the service of another for pay. See South Dakota Codified Laws 62-1-2
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Person: includes natural persons, partnerships, associations, cooperative corporations, limited liability companies, and corporations. See South Dakota Codified Laws 2-14-2
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • written: include typewriting and typewritten, printing and printed, except in the case of signatures, and where the words are used by way of contrast to typewriting and printing. See South Dakota Codified Laws 2-14-2