39-72-712. Methods of deducting attorney's fee from compensation. If a claimant has entered into a contract of employment with an attorney for the recovery of benefits under this chapter and the terms of the employment contract are reasonable, the amount of the attorney's fee may be ordered by the department to be paid by the insurer and thereafter deducted proportionately from weekly payments thereafter to be made to the claimant under this chapter. The department may require payments to be deducted each week in an amount it considers advisable from the payments thereafter to be made to the claimant under this chapter and paid to the attorney as they are so deducted from the weekly payments to the claimant.

     History: En. Sec. 23, Ch. 155, L. 1959; amd. Sec. 13, Ch. 208, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 92-1323(part); amd. Sec. 64, Ch. 613, L. 1989.