Chapter 386

§386-1 Key terms and definitions for workers' compensation

§386-2 Who counts as family for injury benefits

§386-3 When workers get paid for injuries

§386-3.5 Negotiating workers' comp benefits through union bargaining

§386-4 Employers can choose to cover workers not normally included

§386-5 Work injury benefits are the only payment from employer

§386-6 When Hawaii's workers' compensation law applies

§386-7 Workers in interstate, foreign, and maritime jobs

§386-8 When someone other than your employer causes your work injury

§386-8.5 Limits on who can be sued for work injuries

§386-9 Employers cannot avoid workers' compensation duties

§386-10 Registering out-of-state employers before they hire in Hawaii

§386-21 Work injury medical care and who pays

§386-21.1 Medical bills while a workers' comp claim is disputed

§386-21.2 How doctors send treatment plans to employers

§386-21.4 Workers' medical care in first 60 days after injury

§386-21.5 Publishing fees by prepaid health care plan contractors

§386-21.7 Employer must pay for prescription drugs after a work injury

§386-21.9 Medical coverage for firefighters with cancer

§386-22 Artificial limbs and other medical aids

§386-23 Payments for a caregiver when you are badly injured

§386-23.5 Attendant care allowance increases

§386-23.6 Adjusting weekly payments for disabled workers with attendants

§386-24 Medical care for work injuries

§386-25 Vocational rehabilitation for injured workers

§386-26 Rules for how often and what medical care is covered

§386-27 Rules for health care providers in workers' compensation

§386-28 Opioid treatment for injured workers: consent agreement

§386-29 First-time opioid and benzodiazepine prescriptions for injured workers

§386-31 Total disability benefits

§386-32 Payments for partial disability from a work injury

§386-33 How a new injury combines with an old disability

§386-34 Payment after death

§386-35 Extra payments for older permanent disability cases

§386-41 Death benefits for work injuries

§386-42 Who counts as a dependent for workers' compensation death benefits

§386-43 How long dependents get weekly death benefits

§386-44 When paying the wrong person is okay and paying an insane person

§386-51 How your average weekly pay is figured for workers' comp

§386-51.5 Workers' comp limits when you have two jobs

§386-52 Credit for voluntary payments and supplies in kind

§386-53 Getting workers' compensation paid less often than weekly

§386-54 Turning weekly or monthly workers' comp payments into one lump sum

§386-55 Court-appointed trustee for lump sum payments

§386-56 Getting paid from the special fund when your employer defaults

§386-57 Legal status of workers' compensation payments

§386-71 Director of Labor and Industrial Relations: Duties and Powers

§386-71.5 Rehabilitation unit

§386-71.6 Workers' compensation help office is created

§386-72 Director can make rules to enforce this law

§386-73 Who hears workers' compensation disputes first

§386-73.5 Who decides if a job is covered by workers' compensation

§386-78 Compromise of workers' compensation claims

§386-79 Medical examination by employer's physician

§386-80 Independent doctor exam for injured workers

§386-81 Notice of injury and when missing it is okay

§386-82 Deadlines for filing a workers' compensation claim

§386-83 When you can file a workers' comp claim late

§386-84 Time limits paused for minors and mentally incompetent people without guardians

§386-85 Presumptions in favor of injured workers' claims

§386-86 Workers' compensation claim hearings and decisions

§386-87 Appealing a workers' compensation decision

§386-87.1 When a health plan can join an appeal

§386-88 How to appeal a workers' compensation board decision

§386-89 When the workers' comp case can be reopened

§386-90 Appeals board must match the director's decision

§386-91 How to enforce a workers' compensation decision

§386-92 Late payment penalty for workers' compensation

§386-93 Who pays costs and attorney's fees in workers' comp cases

§386-94 Approval of Fees for Lawyers, Doctors, and Other Providers

§386-95 Employer injury reports and penalties

§386-96 Medical reports for injured workers

§386-97 Workplace inspections

§386-97.5 Fines for breaking workers' compensation rules

§386-98 Workers' compensation fraud: what it is and what happens

§386-99 Employers must post and share benefit information

§386-100 Choosing a deductible for workers' comp medical benefits

§386-121 How employers must secure workers' compensation payments

§386-122 Filing proof of workers' compensation insurance

§386-123 Penalties for not providing workers' compensation security

§386-124 What workers' comp insurance policies must cover

§386-124.5 Insurance companies must keep a claims office in Hawaii

§386-125 When the employer knows, the insurance company is treated as knowing

§386-126 Employer bankruptcy does not let insurer stop paying

§386-127 Canceling workers' compensation insurance policies

§386-128 Public employers may buy workers' comp insurance

§386-129 Employers cannot make workers pay for workers' compensation insurance

§386-142 Job protection after a work injury

§386-151 State fund for special worker compensation payments

§386-152 When the special compensation fund levy is charged

§386-153 Insurance companies must pay a special workers' comp levy

§386-154 Charges for employers without workers' compensation insurance

§386-154.5 Special assessments for 1972 and 1973

§386-155 Who pays for lawsuits involving the special compensation fund

§386-161 Who gets paid for a National Guard injury

§386-163 Who runs this program and how claims are handled

§386-164 Money set aside for workers' compensation payments

§386-171 State pays medical bills for injured volunteers

§386-172 Who runs the injury claim process and how it works

§386-173 Deadline for old injury notices starts in 1945

§386-174 Paying claims for services ordered by public officials

§386-181 Workers' comp for unpaid public volunteers

§386-191 Scope

§386-192 Definitions for workers' compensation self-insurance groups

§386-193 Who can act as a workers' compensation self-insurance group

§386-194 How to become and stay a workers' compensation self-insurance group

§386-195 When a workers' comp group's approval ends

§386-196 Insurance commissioner can inspect group records

§386-197 Board of trustees for a workers' compensation group

§386-198 Group membership: joining, leaving, and who pays

§386-199 Rules for service companies and administrators

§386-200 Who must be licensed to sell workers' comp group memberships

§386-201 Financial statements and other reports

§386-202 No lying when recruiting group members

§386-203 How the board can invest extra funds

§386-204 How workers' comp groups set rates and get audited

§386-205 How surplus fund money can be refunded to employers

§386-206 How groups must collect premiums and keep reserves

§386-207 What happens if the group runs short of money

§386-208 Guaranty mechanism

§386-209 Fines for breaking workers' compensation insurance rules

§386-210 Cease and desist orders

§386-211 When the state can revoke a group's approval

§386-212 How the insurance commissioner must give notice and hold hearings

§386-213 Insurance commissioner must make rules for this law

§386-214 Severability