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Exemption: Workers' compensation

Citation: Stat. - S.C. Code Ann. § 42-9-360

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S.C. Code Ann. § 42-9-360 :
Title 42. Workers' Compensation

Chapter 9. Compensation and Payment Thereof

� 42-9-360. Assignments of compensation; exemptions from claims of creditors and taxes.



(A) No claim for compensation under this title shall be assignable and all compensation and claims therefor shall be exempt from all claims of creditors and from taxes.


(B) It shall be unlawful for an authorized health care provider to actively pursue collection procedures against a workers' compensation claimant prior to the final adjudication of the claimant's claim. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the collection from and demand for collection from a workers' compensation insurance carrier or self-insured employer. Violation of this section, after written notice to the provider from the claimant or his representative that adjudication is ongoing, shall result in a penalty of five hundred dollars payable to the workers' compensation claimant.


(C) Any person who receives any fee or other consideration or any gratuity on account of services so rendered, unless the consideration or gratuity is approved by the commission or the court, or who makes it a business to solicit employment for a lawyer or for himself in respect of any claim or award for compensation is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must, for each offense, be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.


(D) Payment to an authorized health care provider for services shall be made in a timely manner but no later than thirty days from the date the authorized health care provider tenders request for payment to the employer's representative, unless the commission has received a request to review the medical bill.


HISTORY: 1962 Code � 72-187; 1952 Code � 72-187; 1942 Code � 7035-24; 1936 (39) 1231.
Last Amended: 1996
1996
HISTORY: 1962 Code � 72-187; 1952 Code � 72-187; 1942 Code � 7035-24; 1936 (39) 1231.

HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 424, � 7, eff June 18, 1996.
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