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The administrator of workers' compensation shall:
(A) Adopt rules to ensure that all compensation payments are accompanied by
information which clearly indicates the source of payment, type of payment, method
of computation, inclusive days of payment, reason for changes in payment, and
telephone number or address for inquiries;
(B) Adopt rules to govern the method of issuing and delivering checks, including
time limits for issuance of checks;
(C) Set standards and inform claimant of procedure for attorney or other
representative pick-up of compensation payment check, and ensure that claimant has
recently executed a proper authorization to pick up the check;
(D) Prohibit any power of attorney allowing an attorney or employee to cash or
endorse a check on behalf of claimant;
(E) Implement a written procedure for effectively obtaining notices of death of
claimant and terminating compensation payments;
(F) Adopt rules to require that a claimant of whom medical examinations have been
requested by his employer shall submit to such examinations and shall be reimbursed
by his employer for reasonable expenses incurred in submitting to the examination
and provide that the claimant shall be reimbursed by his employer in an amount
equal to the wages lost during the time required to attend any such examination, in
the event said claimant sustains lost wages as a result of any such examination.
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