Current with changes from the 2024 Legislative Session
Section 9-101 - Definitions(a) In this title the following words have the meanings indicated.(b) "Accidental personal injury" means:(1) an accidental injury that arises out of and in the course of employment;(2) an injury caused by a willful or negligent act of a third person directed against a covered employee in the course of the employment of the covered employee; or(3) a disease or infection that naturally results from an accidental injury that arises out of and in the course of employment, including:(i) an occupational disease; and(ii) frostbite or sunstroke caused by a weather condition.(c) "Child" includes: (2) an illegitimate child;(3) a posthumous child; and(d) "Commission" means the State Workers' Compensation Commission.(e)(1) "Compensation" means the money payable under this title to a covered employee or the dependents of a covered employee.(2) "Compensation" includes funeral benefits payable under this title.(f) "Covered employee" means an individual listed in Subtitle 2 of this title for whom a person, a governmental unit, or a quasi-public corporation is required by law to provide coverage under this title.(g) "Occupational disease" means a disease contracted by a covered employee: (1) as the result of and in the course of employment; and(2) that causes the covered employee to become temporarily or permanently, partially or totally incapacitated.Amended by 2019 Md. Laws, Ch. 5,Sec. 1, eff. 7/1/2019.