§ 51.32.010 Who entitled to compensation
§ 51.32.015 Time and place of coverage — Lunch period
§ 51.32.020 Who not entitled to compensation
§ 51.32.025 Payments for children cease at age eighteen — Exceptions
§ 51.32.030 When compensation payable to employer or member of corporate employer
§ 51.32.040 Protection of awards — Payment after death — Time limitations for filing — Confinement in institution
§ 51.32.045 Direct deposit or electronic payment of benefits
§ 51.32.050 Death benefits
§ 51.32.055 Determination of permanent disabilities — Closure of claims by self-insurers
§ 51.32.060 Permanent total disability compensation — Personal attendant
§ 51.32.067 Permanent total disability — Death benefit options — Election
§ 51.32.072 Additional payments for prior pensioners — Children — Remarriage — Attendant
§ 51.32.073 Additional payments for prior pensioners — Premium liability of worker and employer for additional payments
§ 51.32.075 Adjustments in compensation or death benefits
§ 51.32.080 Permanent partial disability — Specified — Unspecified, rules for classification — Injury after permanent partial disability
§ 51.32.090 Temporary total disability — Partial restoration of earning power — Return to available work — When employer continues wages — Limitations — Finding — Rules
§ 51.32.095 Vocational rehabilitation services — Benefits — Priorities — Allowable costs — Performance criteria
§ 51.32.096 Vocational rehabilitation benefits and options — Advisory committee — Procedures — Requirements — Definitions — Costs
§ 51.32.098 Vocational rehabilitation services — Applicability
§ 51.32.100 Preexisting disease
§ 51.32.110 Medical examination — Refusal to submit — Traveling expenses — Pay for time lost
§ 51.32.112 Medical examination — Standards and criteria — Special examinations by chiropractors — Compensation guidelines and reporting criteria
§ 51.32.114 Medical examination — Department to monitor quality and objectivity
§ 51.32.120 Further accident after lump sum payment
§ 51.32.130 Lump sum for death or permanent total disability
§ 51.32.135 Closing of claim in pension cases — Consent of spouse
§ 51.32.140 Nonresident alien beneficiary
§ 51.32.150 Lump sum to beneficiary outside state
§ 51.32.160 Aggravation, diminution, or termination
§ 51.32.180 Occupational diseases — Limitation
§ 51.32.181 Occupational diseases — Public health emergencies — Infectious or contagious diseases
§ 51.32.185 Occupational diseases — Presumption of occupational disease for firefighters and fire investigators — Limitations — Exception — Rules — Advisory committee on occupational disease presumptions
§ 51.32.187 Exposed workers — Prima facie presumption of certain occupational diseases — Rebuttal — Definitions
§ 51.32.1871 Annual report on claims
§ 51.32.190 Self-insurers — Notice of denial of claim, reasons — Procedure — Powers and duties of director
§ 51.32.195 Self-insurers — Information to department
§ 51.32.200 Self-insurers — Enforcement of compensation order against
§ 51.32.210 Claims of injured workers, prompt action — Payment — Acceptance — Effect
§ 51.32.215 Payment of compensation after appeal — Enforcement of order — Penalty
§ 51.32.220 Reduction in total disability compensation — Limitations — Notice — Waiver — Adjustment for retroactive reduction in federal social security disability benefit — Restrictions
§ 51.32.225 Reduction in total disability compensation — Offset for social security retirement benefits
§ 51.32.230 Recovery of overpayments
§ 51.32.240 Erroneous payments — Payments induced by willful misrepresentation — Adjustment for self-insurer’s failure to pay benefits — Recoupment of overpayments by self-insurer — Penalty — Appeal — Enfor
§ 51.32.242 Self-insured employer overpayment reimbursement fund — Withholding from worker earnings — Use of funds — Exception
§ 51.32.250 Payment of job modification costs
§ 51.32.260 Compensation for loss or damage to personal effects
§ 51.32.300 State employee vocational rehabilitation coordinator
§ 51.32.350 Chemically related illness — Criteria and procedures for claims — Claims management
§ 51.32.360 Chemically related illness — Centers for research and clinical assessment
§ 51.32.370 Chemically related illness — Research projects — Implementation plan — Funding — Deductions from employees’ pay
§ 51.32.380 Injured offenders — Benefits sent in the care of the department of corrections — Exception — Liability
§ 51.32.390 Health care employees — Presumption of occupational disease for infectious or contagious diseases which are the subject of a public health emergency — Rebuttal — Limitations — Costs
§ 51.32.395 Direct care registered nurses — Presumption of occupational disease for posttraumatic stress disorder
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Terms Used In Washington Code > Chapter 51.32 - Compensation -- Right to and amount

  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
  • Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
  • Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
  • 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.
  • Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
  • Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
  • 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.
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • person: may be construed to include the United States, this state, or any state or territory, or any public or private corporation or limited liability company, as well as an individual. See Washington Code 1.16.080
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. Source: OCC
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.