Terms Used In Montana Code > Title 39 > Chapter 71 > Part 10 - Stay-at-Work/Return-to-Work Assistance

• 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.
• assistance: means the evaluation, planning, implementation, and provision of appropriate services prior to the determination that the worker meets the definition of a disabled worker that are designed to facilitate a worker's return to work as soon as possible following the worker's injury or occupational disease. See Montana Code 39-71-1011
• Assistance fund: means the stay-at-work/return-to-work assistance fund provided for in 39-71-1049. See Montana Code 39-71-1011
• assistance policy: means a written stay-at-work/return-to-work policy that explains to the worker the process of evaluation, planning, implementation, and provision of services by the insurer prior to the determination that the worker meets the definition of a disabled worker. See Montana Code 39-71-1011
• Commission on rehabilitation counselor certification: means the nonprofit, independent, fee-structured organization that is a member of the national commission for health certifying agencies and that is established to certify rehabilitation providers. See Montana Code 39-71-1011
• Disabled worker: means a worker who has a permanent impairment, established by objective medical findings, resulting from a work-related injury that precludes the worker from returning to the job the worker held at the time of the injury or to a job with similar physical requirements and who has an actual wage loss as a result of the injury. See Montana Code 39-71-1011
• 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.
• Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. ^{Source: OCC}
• Person: includes a corporation or other entity as well as a natural person. See Montana Code 1-1-201
• Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Montana Code 1-1-202
• Rehabilitation benefits: means benefits provided in 39-71-1006 and 39-71-1025. See Montana Code 39-71-1011
• Rehabilitation plan: means a written individualized plan that assists a disabled worker in acquiring skills or aptitudes to return to work through job placement, on-the-job training, education, training, or specialized job modification and that reasonably reduces the worker's actual wage loss. See Montana Code 39-71-1011
• Rehabilitation provider: means a rehabilitation counselor certified by the commission on rehabilitation counselor certification and designated by the insurer. See Montana Code 39-71-1011
• Rehabilitation services: means a program of evaluation, planning, and implementation of a rehabilitation plan to assist a disabled worker to return to work. See Montana Code 39-71-1011
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Montana Code 1-1-201
• worker: means :

  (a)each person in this state, including a contractor other than an independent contractor, who is in the service of an employer, as defined by 39-71-117, under any appointment or contract of hire, expressed or implied, oral or written. See Montana Code 39-71-118

• Writing: includes printing. See Montana Code 1-1-203