New Hampshire Revised Statutes 281-A:21-b – Confidentiality of Workers’ Compensation Claims
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Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 281-A:21-b
- Employer: with respect to private employment, means:
(a) A person, partnership, association, corporation, or legal representative of a person, partnership, association or corporation who employs one or more persons whether in one or more trades, businesses, professions or occupations and whether in one or more locations. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 281-A:2 - Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- person: may extend and be applied to bodies corporate and politic as well as to individuals. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:9
- state: when applied to different parts of the United States, may extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories, so called; and the words "United States" shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4
Proceedings and records of the department of labor with respect to workers’ compensation claims under N.H. Rev. Stat. Chapter 281-A shall be exempt from RSA 91-A. Nothing in this section shall prohibit the department of labor from releasing information on a person‘s claim or claims to the person, the person’s legal representative, attorney, health care providers, employer, the employer’s workers’ compensation insurer, the attorneys for the employer or employer’s insurer, or state and federal agencies with relevant jurisdiction. Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, information relating to a person’s claim or claims may be released to other parties only with the prior written permission of the claimant.