§ 65-05-01 Claims for benefits – When and where filed
§ 65-05-01.1 Pneumoconiosis claims – Rules – Agreements
§ 65-05-01.2 Notice to employer
§ 65-05-01.3 Failure to comply with notice and filing provisions
§ 65-05-01.4 Employer to file first report of notice of injury
§ 65-05-01.5 Organization to notify employee of receipt of employer’s first report of notice of injury
§ 65-05-02 Form in which claim must be filed
§ 65-05-03 Jurisdiction of organization to hear questions within its jurisdiction – Finality of determination
§ 65-05-04 Organization has continuing jurisdiction over claims properly filed
§ 65-05-05 Payments made to insured employees injured in course of employment and to their dependents
§ 65-05-06 Payment of compensation in lieu of claim for relief against employer
§ 65-05-07 Injured employee given medical and hospital service required – Furnished artificial limbs and appliances for rehabilitation – Fee approval
§ 65-05-07.3 Medical bills – Electronic acceptance
§ 65-05-08 Disability benefits – Not paid unless period of disability is of five days’ duration or more – Application required – Suspended during confinement – Duty to report wages
§ 65-05-08.1 Verification of disability
§ 65-05-08.2 Preacceptance disability benefits
§ 65-05-08.3 Treating health care provider’s opinion
§ 65-05-09 Temporary total or permanent total disability – Weekly and aggregate benefit
§ 65-05-09.1 Social security offset
§ 65-05-09.2 Retirement offset
§ 65-05-09.3 Retirement presumption – Termination of benefits upon retirement
§ 65-05-09.4 Additional benefit payable
§ 65-05-09.5 Additional benefit payable – Alternative calculation
§ 65-05-10 Partial disability – Weekly benefit
§ 65-05-10.1 Long-term temporary partial disability inflation adjustment
§ 65-05-12.2 Permanent impairment – Compensation – Time paid
§ 65-05-15 Aggravation awards
§ 65-05-16 Death benefits payable
§ 65-05-17 Weekly compensation allowances for death claims
§ 65-05-19 Providing nondependency payments in certain cases
§ 65-05-20.1 Scholarship fund – Rules
§ 65-05-21 Marriage settlement to spouse
§ 65-05-22 Adjustment on cessation of compensation for death to one beneficiary
§ 65-05-25 Lump sum settlements – Granted in discretion of organization – How computed
§ 65-05-26 Burial expenses
§ 65-05-27 Organization without probate proceedings may pay spouse of deceased claimant sum due deceased – Maximum payment
§ 65-05-28 Examination of injured employee – Paid expenses – No compensation paid if injured employee refuses to reasonably participate
§ 65-05-28.1 Employer to select preferred provider
§ 65-05-28.2 Preferred provider – Use required – Exceptions – Notice
§ 65-05-29 Assignment of claims void – Claims exempt
§ 65-05-30 Filing of claim constitutes consent to use of information received by health care provider
§ 65-05-32 Privacy of records and hearings – Penalty
§ 65-05-33 Filing false claim or false statement – Penalty
§ 65-05-34 False statement on employment application
§ 65-05-35 Closed claim – Presumption
§ 65-05-36 Preferred worker program – Continuing appropriation
§ 65-05-37 Retaliation by employer prohibited – Action for damages – Penalty
§ 65-05-38 Death of permanently and totally disabled employee – Surviving spouse
§ 65-05-39 Chronic opioid therapy coverage and monitoring
§ 65-05-40 Opioid therapy and benzodiazepine duration limits – Termination of coverage
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Terms Used In North Dakota Code > Chapter 65-05 - Claims and Compensation

  • 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.
  • Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
  • children: includes children by birth and by adoption. See North Dakota Code 1-01-18
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute means the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • Individual: means a human being. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • 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.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Organization: includes a foreign or domestic association, business trust, corporation, enterprise, estate, joint venture, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, limited partnership, partnership, trust, or any legal or commercial entity. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Penitentiary: includes any affiliated facilities. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Person: means an individual, organization, government, political subdivision, or government agency or instrumentality. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • Rule: includes regulation. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Verified: means sworn to before an officer authorized to administer oaths. See North Dakota Code 1-01-42
  • week: means seven consecutive days and the word "month" a calendar month. See North Dakota Code 1-01-33
  • written: include "typewriting" and "typewritten" and "printing" and "printed" except in the case of signatures and when the words are used by way of contrast to typewriting and printing. See North Dakota Code 1-01-37
  • year: means twelve consecutive months. See North Dakota Code 1-01-33