Title 51 - Industrial insurance
- 51.04 - General provisions.
- 51.04.010 - Declaration of police power -- Jurisdiction of courts abolished.
- 51.04.020 - Powers and duties.
- 51.04.024 - Establishment of investigation unit -- Receipt and use of criminal history information.
- 51.04.030 - Medical aid -- Rules -- Maximum fees -- Records and bill payment.
- 51.04.040 - Subpoena power of director -- Enforcement by superior court -- Application for court approval prior to issuance -- No notice required.
- 51.04.050 - Physician or licensed advanced registered nurse practitioner's testimony not privileged.
- 51.04.060 - No evasion of benefits or burdens.
- 51.04.070 - Minor worker is sui juris -- Guardianship expense.
- 51.04.080 - Sending notices, orders, warrants to claimants.
- 51.04.082 - Notices and orders -- Mail or personal service.
- 51.04.085 - Transmission of amounts payable.
- 51.04.090 - Effect of adjudication of applicability.
- 51.04.100 - Statutes of limitation saved.
- 51.04.105 - Continuation of medical aid contracts.
- 51.04.110 - Workers' compensation advisory committee.
- 51.04.120 - Certificate of coverage required -- Contents.
- 51.04.130 - Industrial insurance coverage for Hanford workers -- Special agreements.
- 51.04.150 - Education and outreach -- Workers' compensation, premium responsibilities, and independent contractor issues.
- 51.08 - Definitions.
- 51.08.010 - Meaning of words.
- 51.08.012 - "Accredited school."
- 51.08.013 - "Acting in the course of employment."
- 51.08.014 - "Agriculture."
- 51.08.015 - "Amount," "payment," "premium," "contribution," "assessment."
- 51.08.018 - "Average monthly wage."
- 51.08.020 - "Beneficiary."
- 51.08.030 - "Child."
- 51.08.040 - "Department."
- 51.08.050 - "Dependent."
- 51.08.060 - "Director."
- 51.08.070 - "Employer" -- Exception.
- 51.08.095 - "Health services provider" -- "Provider."
- 51.08.100 - "Injury."
- 51.08.110 - "Invalid."
- 51.08.140 - "Occupational disease."
- 51.08.142 - "Occupational disease" -- Exclusion of mental conditions caused by stress.
- 51.08.150 - "Permanent partial disability."
- 51.08.160 - "Permanent total disability."
- 51.08.173 - "Self-insurer."
- 51.08.175 - "State fund" -- "State of Washington industrial insurance fund."
- 51.08.177 - "Successor."
- 51.08.178 - "Wages" -- Monthly wages as basis of compensation -- Computation thereof.
- 51.08.180 - "Worker" -- Exceptions.
- 51.08.181 - "Worker" -- Registered contractor and electrician exclusions.
- 51.08.185 - "Employee."
- 51.08.195 - "Employer" and "worker" -- Additional exception.
- 51.08.900 - Construction -- Title applicable to state registered domestic partnerships -- 2009 c 521.
- 51.12 - Employments and occupations covered.
- 51.12.010 - Employments included -- Declaration of policy.
- 51.12.020 - Employments excluded.
- 51.12.025 - Persons working on parents' family farms -- Optional exclusion from coverage.
- 51.12.035 - Volunteers.
- 51.12.045 - Offenders performing community restitution.
- 51.12.050 - Public entity work -- Partnerships with volunteer groups and businesses for community improvement projects.
- 51.12.060 - Federal projects.
- 51.12.070 - Work done by contract -- Subcontractors.
- 51.12.080 - Railway employees.
- 51.12.090 - Intrastate and interstate commerce.
- 51.12.095 - Common carrier employees -- Owners and operators of trucks.
- 51.12.100 - Maritime occupations -- Segregation of payrolls -- Common enterprise -- Geoduck harvesting.
- 51.12.102 - Maritime workers -- Asbestos-related disease.
- 51.12.110 - Elective adoption -- Withdrawal -- Cancellation.
- 51.12.120 - Extraterritorial coverage.
- 51.12.130 - Registered apprentices or trainees.
- 51.12.140 - Volunteer law enforcement officers.
- 51.12.150 - Musicians and entertainers.
- 51.12.160 - Foreign degree-granting institutions--Employee services in country of domicile.
- 51.12.170 - Student volunteers.
- 51.14 - Self-insurers.
- 51.14.010 - Duty to secure payment of compensation -- Options.
- 51.14.020 - Qualification.
- 51.14.030 - Certification of employer as self-insurer.
- 51.14.040 - Surety liability -- Termination.
- 51.14.050 - Termination of status -- Notice -- Financial requirements.
- 51.14.060 - Default by self-insurer -- Authority of director -- Liability for reimbursement.
- 51.14.070 - Payments upon default.
- 51.14.073 - Default lien.
- 51.14.077 - Self-insurers' insolvency trust -- Assessments -- Rules.
- 51.14.080 - Withdrawal of certification -- Grounds.
- 51.14.090 - Withdrawal of certification, corrective action upon employees' petition.
- 51.14.095 - Corrective action -- Appeal.
- 51.14.100 - Notice of compliance to be posted -- Penalty.
- 51.14.110 - Employer's duty to maintain records, furnish information -- Electronic reporting system--Requirement and penalties -- Confidentiality of claims data -- Rules.
- 51.14.120 - Copy of claim file -- Notice of protest or appeal -- Medical report.
- 51.14.130 - Request for claim resolution -- Time.
- 51.14.140 - Violations of disclosure or request for resolution -- Order by director.
- 51.14.150 - School districts, ESDs, public hospital districts, or hospitals as self-insurers -- Authorized -- Organization -- Qualifications.
- 51.14.160 - School districts, ESDs, or hospitals as self-insurers -- Rules -- Scope.
- 51.14.300 - Ombudsman office created -- Appointment -- Open and competitive contracting.
- 51.14.310 - Ombudsman -- Term of office -- Removal -- Vacancies.
- 51.14.320 - Ombudsman -- Training or experience qualifications.
- 51.14.330 - Ombudsman office -- Staffing level.
- 51.14.340 - Ombudsman office -- Powers and duties.
- 51.14.350 - Ombudsman office -- Referral procedures -- Department response to referred complaints.
- 51.14.360 - Ombudsman liability -- Discriminatory, disciplinary, or retaliatory actions -- Communications privileged and confidential -- Testimony.
- 51.14.370 - Confidentiality of ombudsman records and files -- Disclosure prohibited -- Exception.
- 51.14.380 - Explaining ombudsman program -- Posters and brochures.
- 51.14.390 - Ombudsman office -- Funding.
- 51.14.400 - Ombudsman -- Annual report to governor.
- 51.16 - Assessment and collection of premiums -- Payrolls and records.
- 51.16.035 - Classifications -- Premiums -- Rules -- Workers' compensation advisory committee recommendations.
- 51.16.040 - Occupational diseases.
- 51.16.042 - Occupational and environmental research facility.
- 51.16.060 - Quarterly report of payrolls.
- 51.16.070 - Employer's records -- Unified business identifier -- Confidentiality.
- 51.16.090 - Continuity of cost experience.
- 51.16.100 - Classification changes.
- 51.16.105 - Departmental expenses, financing.
- 51.16.107 - Information and training on premium liability.
- 51.16.110 - New businesses or resumed or continued operations.
- 51.16.120 - Distribution of further accident cost.
- 51.16.130 - Distribution of catastrophe cost.
- 51.16.140 - Premium liability of worker.
- 51.16.150 - Delinquent employers -- Penalty after demand -- Injunctive relief.
- 51.16.155 - Failure or refusal of employer to report or pay premiums due -- Collection.
- 51.16.160 - Lien for payments due -- Priority -- Probate, insolvency, etc.
- 51.16.170 - Lien for premiums, assessments, contributions, and penalties -- Priority -- In general -- Notice.
- 51.16.180 - Property acquired by state on execution.
- 51.16.190 - Limitation on collection actions.
- 51.16.200 - Payment of tax by employer quitting business -- Liability of successor.
- 51.16.210 - Horse racing employment -- Premiums.
- 51.16.220 - Reimbursement from disaster response account for nongovernment employees.
- 51.16.230 - Hospitals -- Premiums -- Rules -- Reports.
- 51.16.235 - Farm internship program -- Compensation risk class -- Rules.
- 51.18 - Retrospective rating plan.
- 51.18.005 - Findings.
- 51.18.010 - Availability -- Rules -- Coverage period.
- 51.18.020 - Entrance criteria.
- 51.18.030 - Sponsoring entities -- New or existing retrospective rating groups.
- 51.18.040 - Retrospective rating groups -- Industry and business categories.
- 51.18.050 - Retrospective rating groups -- Probationary status -- Denial of future enrollment.
- 51.18.060 - Retrospective rating groups -- Department approval.
- 51.18.900 - Severability -- 1999 c 7.
- 51.24 - Actions at law for injury or death.
- 51.24.020 - Action against employer for intentional injury.
- 51.24.030 - Action against third person -- Election by injured person or beneficiary -- Underinsured motorist insurance coverage.
- 51.24.035 - Immunity of design professional and employees.
- 51.24.040 - Election or recovery no bar to compensation or benefits.
- 51.24.050 - Assignment of cause of action -- Disposition of recovered amount.
- 51.24.060 - Distribution of amount recovered -- Lien.
- 51.24.070 - Required election -- Procedures -- Right of reelection.
- 51.24.080 - Notice of election or copy of complaint to department or self-insurer -- Filing notice.
- 51.24.090 - Compromise or settlement less than benefits.
- 51.24.100 - Right to compensation not pleadable or admissible -- Challenge to right to bring action.
- 51.24.110 - Assigned cases -- Special assistant attorneys general.
- 51.24.120 - Rules.
- 51.24.900 - Application -- 1977 ex.s. c 85.
- 51.24.902 - Application -- 1984 c 218.
- 51.28 - Notice and report of accident -- Application for compensation.
- 51.28.010 - Notice of accident -- Notification of worker's rights -- Claim suppression.
- 51.28.015 - Injury reporting -- Findings -- Department educational initiative -- Pilot program, employers to assist workers in applying for benefits -- Report.
- 51.28.020 - Worker's application for compensation -- Physician to aid in.
- 51.28.025 - Duty of employer to report injury or disease -- Contents of report -- Claim suppression -- Penalty.
- 51.28.030 - Beneficiaries' application for compensation -- Notification of rights.
- 51.28.040 - Application for change in compensation.
- 51.28.050 - Time limitation for filing application or enforcing claim for injury.
- 51.28.055 - Time limitation for filing claim for occupational disease -- Notice -- Hearing loss claims -- Rules.
- 51.28.060 - Proof of dependency.
- 51.28.070 - Claim files and records confidential.
- 51.28.080 - Determination of compensation for temporary total disability -- Notification of employer.
- 51.28.090 - Notification of availability of basic health plan.
- 51.28.100 - Physician assistant signatures -- Documents required by the department.
- 51.32 - Compensation -- Right to and amount.
- 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 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.
- 51.32.095 - Vocational rehabilitation services -- Benefits -- Priorities -- Allowable costs -- Performance criteria.
- 51.32.098 - Vocational rehabilitation services -- Applicability.
- 51.32.099 - Vocational rehabilitation pilot program -- Vocational plans.
- 51.32.0991 - Vocational services and plans -- Costs -- Medical aid fund expenses.
- 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.
- 51.32.185 - Occupational diseases -- Presumption of occupational disease for firefighters -- Limitations -- Exception -- Rules.
- 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 --
- 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.
- 51.36 - Medical aid.
- 51.36.010 - Extent and duration.
- 51.36.015 - Chiropractic care and evaluation.
- 51.36.017 - Licensed advanced registered nurse practitioners.
- 51.36.020 - Transportation to treatment -- Artificial substitutes and mechanical aids -- Modifications to residences or motor vehicles.
- 51.36.022 - Residence modification assistance -- Rules -- Report to legislature.
- 51.36.030 - First aid.
- 51.36.040 - Time and place of coverage -- Lunch period.
- 51.36.050 - Rehabilitation center -- Contracts with self-insurers and others.
- 51.36.060 - Duties of attending physician or licensed advanced registered nurse practitioner -- Medical information.
- 51.36.070 - Medical examination -- Reports -- Costs.
- 51.36.080 - Payment of fees and medical charges by department -- Interest -- Cost-effective payment methods -- Audits.
- 51.36.085 - Payment of fees and medical charges by self-insurers -- Interest.
- 51.36.090 - Review of billings -- Investigation of unauthorized services.
- 51.36.100 - Audits of health care providers authorized.
- 51.36.110 - Audits of health care providers -- Powers of department.
- 51.36.120 - Confidential information.
- 51.36.130 - False, misleading, or deceptive advertising or representations.
- 51.36.140 - Industrial insurance medical advisory committee -- Duties -- Membership.
- 51.36.150 - Industrial insurance chiropractic advisory committee -- Duties -- Membership.
- 51.44 - Funds.
- 51.44.010 - Accident fund.
- 51.44.020 - Medical aid fund.
- 51.44.030 - Reserve fund.
- 51.44.033 - Supplemental pension fund.
- 51.44.040 - Second injury fund.
- 51.44.050 - Catastrophe injury account.
- 51.44.060 - Charge to accident fund for the catastrophe injury account.
- 51.44.070 - Transfer from accident fund, accounts to reserve fund -- Annuity values -- Self-insurers -- Penalty for delay or refusal of reimbursement.
- 51.44.080 - Reserve fund -- Transfers from state fund -- Surplus -- Deficiency.
- 51.44.090 - Reserve fund record and maintenance by state treasurer.
- 51.44.100 - Investment of accident, medical aid, reserve, supplemental pension funds.
- 51.44.110 - Disbursements of funds.
- 51.44.115 - Financial statements and information -- Annual audit and report.
- 51.44.120 - Liability of state treasurer.
- 51.44.140 - Self-insurer deposits into reserve fund -- Accounts within fund -- Surpluses and deficits.
- 51.44.142 - Self-insured employer overpayment reimbursement fund.
- 51.44.150 - Assessments upon self-insurers for administration costs.
- 51.44.160 - Interfund loans between reserve and supplemental pension funds -- Audit.
- 51.44.170 - Industrial insurance premium refund account.
- 51.48 - Penalties.
- 51.48.010 - Employer's liability for penalties, injury or disease occurring before payment of compensation secured.
- 51.48.017 - Self-insurer delaying or refusing to pay benefits.
- 51.48.020 - Employer's false reporting or failure to secure payment of compensation -- False information by claimants -- Unlawful actions -- Penalties.
- 51.48.022 - Failure to secure payment of compensation -- Stop work order -- Penalty -- Rules.
- 51.48.025 - Retaliation by employer prohibited -- Investigation -- Remedies.
- 51.48.030 - Failure to keep records and make reports.
- 51.48.040 - Inspection of employer's records.
- 51.48.050 - Liability for illegal collections for medical aid.
- 51.48.055 - Termination, dissolution, or abandonment of business -- Personal liability for unpaid premiums.
- 51.48.060 - Physician or licensed advanced registered nurse practitioner -- Failure to report or comply.
- 51.48.075 - Information and training on premium liability.
- 51.48.080 - Violation of rules.
- 51.48.090 - Collection.
- 51.48.100 - Waiver -- Penalty-free periods.
- 51.48.103 - Engaging in business without certificate of coverage -- Unlawful actions -- Penalties.
- 51.48.105 - Failure to apply for coverage of employees -- Not applicable, when.
- 51.48.110 - Decedent having no beneficiaries -- Payment into supplemental pension fund.
- 51.48.120 - Notice of assessment for default in payments by employer -- Issuance -- Service -- Contents.
- 51.48.131 - Notice of assessment for default in payments by employer -- Appeal.
- 51.48.140 - Notice of assessment for employer's default in payments -- When amount becomes final -- Warrant -- Execution -- Garnishment -- Fees.
- 51.48.150 - Notice of assessment for employer's default in payments -- Notice to withhold and deliver property due employer.
- 51.48.160 - Revocation of certificate of coverage for failure to pay warrants or taxes.
- 51.48.170 - Emergency assessment and collection of taxes.
- 51.48.180 - Emergency assessment and collection of taxes -- Distraint and sale of property.
- 51.48.190 - Emergency assessment and collection of taxes -- Conduct of sale.
- 51.48.200 - Search and seizure of property to satisfy tax warrant or assessment -- Issuance and execution of search warrant.
- 51.48.210 - Delinquent taxes.
- 51.48.220 - Order of execution upon property -- Procedure -- Sale.
- 51.48.230 - Order of execution upon property -- Enforcement.
- 51.48.240 - Agents and employees of department not personally liable -- Conditions.
- 51.48.250 - Liability of persons wilfully obtaining erroneous payments -- Civil penalties.
- 51.48.260 - Liability of persons unintentionally obtaining erroneous payments.
- 51.48.270 - Criminal liability of persons making false statements or concealing information.
- 51.48.280 - Kickbacks, bribes, and rebates -- Representation fees -- Criminal liability -- Exceptions.
- 51.48.290 - Written verification by health services providers.
- 51.52 - Appeals.
- 51.52.010 - Board of industrial insurance appeals.
- 51.52.020 - Board -- Rule-making power.
- 51.52.030 - Board -- Expenses.
- 51.52.040 - Board -- Removal of member.
- 51.52.050 - Service of departmental action -- Demand for repayment -- Orders amending benefits -- Reconsideration or appeal.
- 51.52.060 - Notice of appeal -- Time -- Cross-appeal -- Departmental options.
- 51.52.063 - After notice of appeal -- Contact with medical providers restricted -- Rules.
- 51.52.070 - Contents of notice -- Transmittal of record.
- 51.52.075 - Appeal from order terminating provider's authority to provide services -- Department petition for order immediately suspending provider's eligibility to participate.
- 51.52.080 - Appeal to board denied, when.
- 51.52.090 - Appeal to board deemed granted, when.
- 51.52.095 - Conference for disposal of matters involved in appeal -- Mediation of disputes.
- 51.52.100 - Proceedings before board -- Contempt.
- 51.52.102 - Hearing the appeal -- Dismissal -- Evidence -- Continuances.
- 51.52.104 - Industrial appeals judge -- Recommended decision and order -- Petition for review -- Finality of order.
- 51.52.106 - Review of decision and order.
- 51.52.110 - Court appeal -- Taking the appeal.
- 51.52.112 - Court appeal -- Payment of taxes, penalties, and interest required.
- 51.52.113 - Collection of tax or penalty may not be enjoined.
- 51.52.115 - Court appeal -- Procedure at trial -- Burden of proof.
- 51.52.120 - Attorney's fee before department or board -- Unlawful attorney's fees.
- 51.52.130 - Attorney and witness fees in court appeal.
- 51.52.132 - Unlawful attorney's fees.
- 51.52.135 - Worker or beneficiary entitled to interest on award -- Rate.
- 51.52.140 - Rules of practice -- Duties of attorney general -- Supreme court appeal.
- 51.52.150 - Costs on appeals.
- 51.52.160 - Publication and indexing of significant decisions.
- 51.52.200 - Exception -- Employers as parties to actions relating to compensation or assistance for victims of crimes.
- 51.52.800 - Workers' compensation study.
- 51.98 - Construction.
- 51.98.010 - Continuation of existing law.
- 51.98.020 - Title, chapter, section headings not part of law.
- 51.98.030 - Invalidity of part of title not to affect remainder.
- 51.98.040 - Repeals and saving.
- 51.98.050 - Emergency -- 1961 c 23.
- 51.98.060 - Effective dates -- 1971 ex.s. c 289.
- 51.98.070 - Severability -- 1971 ex.s. c 289.
- 51.98.080 - Severability -- 1972 ex.s. c 43.
- RCW Dispositions
- 51.24 - Actions at law for injury or death
- 51.16 - Assessment and collection of premiums — payrolls and records
- 51.20 - Classification of occupations
- 51.32 - Compensation — right to and amount
- 51.08 - Definitions
- 51.12 - Employments and occupations covered
- 51.44 - Funds
- 51.04 - General provisions
- 51.40 - Medical aid contracts
- 51.28 - Notice and report of accident — application for compensation
- 51.48 - Penalties
- 51.60 - Pilot projects to reduce long-term disability rate
- 51.41 - Vocational rehabilitation plans
- Notes