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44-5a18. Autopsy; notice; findings; public record.Upon the filing or service of a claim for compensation for death from anoccupational disease where an autopsy is necessary to accurately andscientifically ascertain and determine the cause of death, such autopsyshall be ordered by the director. Such autopsy shall be made under thesupervision of a medical examiner appointed by the director. The medicalexaminer shall be a health care provider who is a specialist in suchexaminations. The medical examiner shall perform or attend such autopsy andshall certify the medical examiner's findings in a report of the autopsy. Thereport of autopsy shall be filed with the director and shall be a publicrecord. The employer and claimants shall be given reasonable notice of suchautopsy and each shall have the right to have a health care provider of theemployer or claimant's own choosing present at the time. The director also mayexercise such authority on the director's own motion or on application made tothe director at any time, upon the presentation of facts showing that acontroversy may exist in regard to the cause of death or the existence of anyoccupational disease.
History: L. 1953, ch. 246, § 18; L. 1976, ch. 370, § 23; L. 1990,ch. 182, § 12; July 1.
