Title 28
Labor and Labor Relations

Chapter 33
Workers’ Compensation — Benefits

R.I. Gen. Laws § 28-33-36

§ 28-33-36. Payment of medical examiner’s fees.

Whenever, in any case arising under chapters 29 — 38 of this title, any judge of the court shall have, pursuant to the provisions of § 28-33-35, determined and fixed the reasonable fees of any impartial medical examiner, those medical fees shall be paid immediately, and no appeal of any case in which that impartial medical examiner shall have acted taken to any court of this state shall act as a stay of any order fixing the amount of that medical fees and ordering the payment of the fees, unless the appeal is taken for the purpose of having the court determine the reasonableness of the charge made by the impartial medical examiner.

History of Section.
G.L. 1938, ch. 300, art. 2, § 21; P.L. 1942, ch. 1194, § 1; P.L. 1954, ch. 3297, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 28-33-36; P.L. 1985, ch. 365, § 6; P.L. 1986, ch. 507, § 7; P.L. 1990, ch. 332, art. 1, § 3.