§ 8-46-307 — Credit for reduced disability - when

(1) In any determination of
permanent disability, the employer or the employer's insurance carrier shall receive
no credit or benefit for the reduction of disability of any claimant employee under
the Workers' Compensation Act of Colorado directly attributable to a
compensable accident or disease when such reduction of disability is accomplished
by expenditures from the medical disaster insurance fund, unless it shall have been
determined by a preponderance of the evidence:

(a) That the claimant employee had refused hospital, surgical, and medical
services under the Workers' Compensation Act of Colorado necessary to reduce
the employee's disability voluntarily offered by the employer; or

(b) That the claimant employee had reached maximum improvement as
determined by the director prior to the filing of the application for payments from
the medical disaster insurance fund.

Legislative History

Source: L. 90: Entire article R&RE, p. 551, � 1, effective July 1.