Indiana Administrative Code
Title 631 - WORKER'S COMPENSATION BOARD OF INDIANA
Article 1 - WORKER'S COMPENSATION
Rule 1 - Procedures Before the Board; Compensation Payments; Reports; Second Injury Fund
Section 1-8 - Answers; affirmative defenses

Universal Citation: 631 IN Admin Code 1-8
Current through September 18, 2024

Authority: IC 22-3-1-3

Affected: IC 22-3-2-8; IC 22-3-4-2; IC 22-3-7-24

Sec. 8.

The defendant may file a responsive pleading to any application, petition or complaint of the plaintiff at any time before the date set for the hearing, but no such answer is required, and if none is filed, the allegations contained in the application, petition or complaint will be deemed to be denied.

If the defendant relies upon the special defenses allowed by IC 22-3-2-8, such special defense must be pleaded by an affirmative answer filed no later than forty-five (45) days before the date set for hearing unless good cause is shown for delay.

Transferred from the Industrial Board of Indiana ( 630 IAC 1-1-10) to the Worker's Compensation Board of Indiana ( 631 IAC 1-1-8) by P.L. 28-1988, SECTION 121, effective July 1, 1988.

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