§ 25. Compensation, how payable. 1. When no controversy; penalties:\nfailure to notify of cessation of payment; late payment of installment.\n(a) The compensation herein provided for shall be paid periodically and\npromptly in like manner as wages, and as it accrues, and directly to the\nperson entitled thereto without waiting for an award by the board,\nincluding those cases previously established and closed by the board\nupon receipt of an application to reopen such case, except in those\ncases in which the right to compensation is controverted by the\nemployer.\n (b) The first payment of compensation shall become due on the\nfourteenth day of disability on which date or within four days\nthereafter all compensation then due shall be paid, and the compensation\npayable bi-weekly thereafter; but the board may determine that any\npayments may be made monthly or at any other period, as it may deem\nadvisable. An award of compensation payable for permanent partial\ndisability under paragraphs a through t, inclusive, of subdivision three\nof section fifteen of this article, shall be payable in one lump sum,\nwithout commutation to present value upon the request of the injured\nemployee.\n (c) If the employer or insurance carrier does not controvert the\ninjured worker's right to compensation such employer or insurance\ncarrier shall, either on or before the eighteenth day after disability,\nor within ten days after the employer first has knowledge of the alleged\naccident, whichever period is the greater, begin paying compensation and\nshall immediately notify the chair in accordance with a form to be\nprescribed by him, that the payment of compensation has begun,\naccompanied by the further statement that the employer or insurance\ncarrier, as the case may be, will notify the chair when the payment of\ncompensation has been stopped.\n (d) Whenever for any reason compensation payments cease, the employer\nor its insurance carrier shall within sixteen days thereafter, send to\nthe chair a notice on a form prescribed by the chair that such payment\nhas been stopped, which notice shall contain the name of the injured\nemployee or his or her principle dependent, the date of accident, the\ndate to which compensation has been paid and the whole amount of\ncompensation paid. In case the employer or its insurance carrier fails\nso to notify the chair of the cessation of payments within sixteen days\nafter the date on which compensation has been paid, the board may impose\na penalty upon such employer or its insurance carrier in the amount of\nthree hundred dollars, which shall be paid to the claimant. Such penalty\nshall be collected in like manner as an award of compensation.\n (e) If the employer or insurance carrier shall fail to pay any\ninstallments of compensation within twenty-five days after the same\nbecome due, there shall be paid by the employer or, if insured, its\ninsurance carrier, an additional amount of twenty percent of the\ncompensation then due which shall accrue for the benefit of the injured\nworker or his or her dependents and shall be paid to him or her or them\nwith the compensation, unless such delay or default is excused by the\nboard upon the application of the employer or insurance carrier upon the\nground that owing to conditions over which the employer or insurance\ncarrier had no control, such payment could not be made. The employer in\neach such instance shall also be assessed the sum of three hundred\ndollars, which shall be paid to the claimant.\n (f) Whenever compensation is withheld solely because a controversy\nexists on the question of liability as between insurance carriers,\nsurety companies, the special disability fund, the special fund for\nreopened cases, or an employer, the board may direct that any carrier,\nsurety company, the special disability fund, the special fund for\nreopened cases shall immediately pay compensation and bills for medical\ncare to the extent payable in accordance wi
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