West Virginia Code — 23
Browse 90 sections in division 23 of the West Virginia code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
Sections (showing up to 300)
- § 23-1-1. 23-1-1. Regulation of the workers’ compensation system by the Insurance Commissioner; findings.
- § 23-1-2. 23-1-2. Oversight of the workers’ compensation commission.
- § 23-1-3. 23-1-3. Payment of salaries and expenses generally; manner; limitation.
- § 23-1-4. 23-1-4. Records; confidentiality; exceptions.
- § 23-1-5. 23-1-5. Office of Insurance Commissioner; hearings.
- § 23-1-6. 23-1-6. Employment of associate director and other assistants; compensation and travel expenses.
- § 23-1-7. 23-1-7. Associate director to act during executive director’s absence or inability to act and in case of vacancy; bond of associate director.
- § 23-1-8. 23-1-8. Authority of Insurance Commissioner and employees as to oaths and evidence.
- § 23-1-9. 23-1-9. Compelling compliance with order or subpoena.
- § 23-1-10. 23-1-10. Fee of officer serving subpoena; fees and mileage of witnesses.
- § 23-1-11. 23-1-11. Depositions; investigations.
- § 23-1-12. 23-1-12. Copies of proceedings as evidence.
- § 23-1-13. 23-1-13. Rules of procedure and evidence; persons authorized to appear in proceedings; withholding of psychiatric and psychological reports and providing summaries thereof.
- § 23-1-14. 23-1-14. Forms.
- § 23-1-15. 23-1-15. Procedure before Insurance Commissioner.
- § 23-1-16. 23-1-16.
- § 23-1-17. 23-1-17. Annual report by the Insurance Commissioner and Occupational Pneumoconiosis Board.
- § 23-1-18. 23-1-18. Insurance Commissioner employees not subject to subpoena for workers’ compensation hearings.
- § 23-1-19. 23-1-19. Civil remedies.
- § 23-1-20. 23-1-20. Employment preference for employees in workers’ compensation litigation unit.
- § 23-1-21. 23-1-21. Authorization to require the electronic invoices and transfers.
- § 23-2-1. 23-2-1. Employers subject to chapter; elections not to provide certain coverages; notices; filing of business registration certificates.
- § 23-2-2. 23-2-2. Insurance Commissioner to be furnished information by employers, State Tax Commissioner, and WorkForce West Virginia; secrecy of information; examination of employers, etc.; violation a misdemeanor.
- § 23-2-3. 23-2-3. Report forms and other forms for use of employers.
- § 23-2-4. 23-2-4. Classification of industries; rate of premiums; authority to adopt various systems; accounts.
- § 23-2-5. 23-2-5. Notice to employees.
- § 23-2-6. 23-2-6. Exemption of contributing employers from liability.
- § 23-2-7. 23-2-7. Benefits of chapter may not be waived by contract or regulation.
- § 23-2-8. 23-2-8. Liability of employer for failing to procure or maintain workers’ compensation insurance; certain common-law defenses prohibited; exceptions.
- § 23-2-9. 23-2-9. Election of employer or employers’ group to be self-insured and to provide own system of compensation; exceptions; self administration; rules; penalties; regulation of self-insurers.
- § 23-2-10. 23-2-10. Application of chapter to interstate commerce.
- § 23-2-11. 23-2-11. Partial invalidity of chapter.
- § 23-2-12. 23-2-12. Effect of repeal or invalidity of chapter on action for damages.
- § 23-2-13. 23-2-13. Interest.
- § 23-2-14. 23-2-14. Sale or transfer of business; attachment of lien for premium, etc.; payments due; criminal penalties for failure to pay; creation and avoidance or elimination of lien; enforcement of lien; successor liability.
- § 23-2-15. 23-2-15. Liabilities of successor employer; waiver of payment by commission; assignment of predecessor employer’s premium rate to successor.
- § 23-2-16. 23-2-16. Acceptance or assignment of premium rate.
- § 23-2-17. 23-2-17. Employer right to hearing; content of petition; appeal.
- § 23-2-18. 23-2-18.
- § 23-3-1. 23-3-1. Compensation Fund; catastrophe and catastrophe payment defined; compensation by employers.
- § 23-3-2. 23-3-2. Custody, investment and disbursement of funds.
- § 23-3-3. 23-3-3. Investment of surplus funds required.
- § 23-3-4. 23-3-4. Deposits and disbursements considered abandoned property; disposition of property.
- § 23-3-5. 23-3-5. Authorization to require the electronic invoices and transfers.
- § 23-3-6. 23-3-6. Emergency fiscal measures.
- § 23-4-1. 23-4-1. To whom compensation fund disbursed; occupational pneumoconiosis and other occupational diseases included in "injury" and "personal injury"; definition of occupational pneumoconiosis and other occupational diseases; rebuttable presumption for cardiovascular injury and disease or pulmonary disease for firefighters.
- § 23-4-2. 23-4-2. Disbursement where injury is self-inflicted or intentionally caused by employer; legislative declarations and findings; "deliberate intention" defined.
- § 23-4-3. 23-4-3. Schedule of maximum disbursements for medical, surgical, dental, and hospital treatment; legislative approval; guidelines; preferred provider agreements; charges in excess of scheduled amounts not to be made; required disclosure of financial interest in sale or rental of medically related mechanical appliances or devices; promulgation of rules to enforce requirement; consequences of failure to disclose; contract by employer with hospital, physician, etc., prohibited; criminal penalties for violation; payments to certain providers prohibited; medical cost and care program; payments; interlocutory orders.
- § 23-4-4. 23-4-4. Funeral expenses; wrongfully seeking payment; criminal penalties.
- § 23-4-5. 23-4-5. Benefits for first three days after injury.
- § 23-4-6. 23-4-6. Classification of and criteria for disability benefits.
- § 23-4-7. 23-4-7. Release of medical information to employer; legislative findings; effect of application for benefits; duty of employer.
- § 23-4-8. 23-4-8. Physical examination of claimant.
- § 23-4-9. 23-4-9. Physical and vocational rehabilitation.
- § 23-4-10. 23-4-10. Classification of death benefits; "dependent" defined.
- § 23-4-11. 23-4-11. To whom death benefits paid.
- § 23-4-12. 23-4-12. Application of benefits.
- § 23-4-13. 23-4-13. Effect of abandonment of spouse.
- § 23-4-14. 23-4-14. Computation of benefits.
- § 23-4-15. 23-4-15. Application for benefits.
- § 23-4-16. 23-4-16. Jurisdiction over case continuous; modification of finding or order; time limitation on awards; reimbursement of claimant for expenses; reopening cases involving permanent total disability; promulgation of rules.
- § 23-4-17. 23-4-17. Commutation of periodical benefits.
- § 23-4-18. 23-4-18. Mode of paying benefits generally; exemptions of compensation from legal process.
- § 23-4-19. 23-4-19.
- § 23-4-20. 23-4-20. Postmortem examinations.
- § 23-4-21. 23-4-21. Severability.
- § 23-4-22. 23-4-22. Permanent disability evaluations; limitations; notice.
- § 23-4-23. 23-4-23. Permanent total disability benefits; reduction of disability benefits; reduction of benefits; application of section; severability.
- § 23-4-24. 23-4-24. Permanent total disability awards; retirement age; limitations on eligibility and the introduction of evidence; effects of other types of awards; procedures; requests for awards; jurisdiction.
- § 23-4-25. 23-4-25. Permanent total disability benefits; reduction of disability benefits for wages earned by claimant.
- § 23-5-1. 23-5-1. Notice by commission or self-insured employer of decision; procedures on claims; objections and hearing; effective until June 30, 2022.
- § 23-5-2. 23-5-2. Application by employee for further adjustment of claim; objection to modification; hearing.
- § 23-5-3. 23-5-3. Refusal to reopen claim; notice; objection; effective until June 30, 2022.
- § 23-5-4. 23-5-4. Application by employer for modification of award; objection to modification; hearing.
- § 23-5-5. 23-5-5. Refusal of modification; notice; objection; effective until June 30, 2022.
- § 23-5-6. 23-5-6. Time periods for objections and appeals; extensions; effective until June 30, 2022.
- § 23-5-7. 23-5-7. Compromise and settlement.
- § 23-5-8. 23-5-8. Designation of Office of Administrative Law Judges; powers of chief administrative law judge; effective until June 30, 2022.
- § 23-5-9. 23-5-9. Hearings on objections to Insurance Commissioner; private carrier or self-insured employer decisions; mediation; remand; effective until June 30, 2022.
- § 23-5-11. 23-5-11. Workers’ Compensation Board of Review generally; administrative powers and duties of the board; effective until June 30, 2022.
- § 23-5-12. 23-5-12. Appeal to board; procedure; remand and supplemental hearing; effective until June 30, 2022.
- § 23-5-13. 23-5-13. Continuances and supplemental hearings; claims not to be denied on technicalities; effective until June 30, 2022.
- § 23-5-14. 23-5-14. Disqualification of board members.
- § 23-5-15. 23-5-15. Appeals from final decisions of board to Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia prior to July 1, 2022; procedure; costs.
- § 23-5-16. 23-5-16. Fees of attorney for claimant; unlawful charging or receiving of attorney fees; effective until June 30, 2022.
- § 23-5-17. 23-5-17.
- § 23-5-18. 23-5-18.
- § 23-6-1. 23-6-1. Severability.
- § 23-6-2. 23-6-2. Legislative intent.
- § 23-6-3. 23-6-3. Operative date for particular enactment.