Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 7.09.2001

Guidelines for Physicians Panel Determinations on Worker Requests for Assistance in Filing for State Workers' Compensation Benefits

The Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing procedures to implement Subtitle D of the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 under which a DOE contractor employee or the employee's estate can seek assistance from the DOE Program Office in filing a claim with the appropriate State workers' compensation system based on an illness or death caused by exposure to a toxic substance during the course of employment at a DOE facility. These procedures deal with how: An individual may submit an application to the Program Office for review and assistance; the Program Office determines whether to submit an application to a physicians panel; physicians panels determine whether the illness or death of a DOE contract employee arose out of and in the course of employment by a DOE contractor and through exposure to a toxic substance at a DOE facility; the Program Office accepts or rejects a determination by a physicians panel; and appeals may be undertaken.