Minnesota § 176.84 - SPECIFICITY OF NOTICE OR STATEMENT
Full text of Minnesota Minnesota Statutes § 176.84 — SPECIFICITY OF NOTICE OR STATEMENT, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 176.84. SPECIFICITY OF NOTICE OR STATEMENT
Subdivision 1.Specificity required.
Notices of discontinuance and denials of liability shall be sufficiently specific to convey clearly, without further inquiry, the basis upon which the party issuing the notice or statement is acting. If the commissioner or compensation judge determines that a notice or statement is not sufficiently specific to meet the standard under this section, the notice or statement may be rejected as unacceptable and the party issuing it shall be informed of this. The rejected notice or statement may be amended to meet the requirement of this section or a new one may be filed.
Subd. 2.Penalty.
The commissioner or compensation judge may impose a penalty of $500 for each violation of subdivision 1. This penalty is payable to the commissioner for deposit in the assigned risk safety account.
Subd. 3.Effective date.
This section shall not be effective until the commissioner adopts rules which specify what is required to be contained in the notice of discontinuance and the denial of liability.
History:
1983 c 290 s 166; 1987 c 332 s 113; 1995 c 231 art 2 s 100; 2002 c 262 s 22
Official Publication of the State of Minnesota
Revisor of Statutes
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