39-72-405. General limitations on payment of compensation. (1) Compensation may not be paid when the last day of the injurious exposure of the employee to the hazard of the occupational disease has occurred prior to July 1, 1959.
     (2) When an employee in employment on or after January 1, 1959, because the employee has an occupational disease incurred in and caused by the employment that is not yet disabling, is discharged or transferred from the employment in which the employee is engaged or when the employee ceases employment and it is in fact, as determined by the medical panel, inadvisable for the employee on account of a nondisabling occupational disease to continue in employment and the employee suffers wage loss by reason of the discharge, transfer, or cessation, compensation may be paid, not exceeding $10,000, by an agreement between the insurer and the claimant. If the parties fail to reach an agreement, the mediation procedures in Title 39, chapter 71, part 24, must be followed.

     History: En. Sec. 11, Ch. 155, L. 1959; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 92, L. 1965; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 208, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 92-1311(1)(a) thru (d); amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 104, L. 1979; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 112, L. 1985; amd. Sec. 64, Ch. 613, L. 1989; amd. Sec. 16, Ch. 555, L. 1993.