Online Resources
How to File a Claim
Effective July 1st, 2017, the Department of Workers' Claims no longer accepts paper filings.
All new filings must be completed through the LMS system. First-time users can register in the LMS app.
Login to LMS
For further instruction on how to register, please view our
LMS Instructional Video.
Who can use LMS?
LMS provides a significant benefit to attorneys, insurance carriers, employers, medical providers, claimants, and others who have a role in Kentucky’s workers’ compensation process.
Very basic information is required to register; attorneys, for example, must provide their Kentucky Bar ID and court reporters must provide a tax ID number when registering.
Handling Active Cases
As LMS is coming online, Workers' Claims asks that interested parties, or their representatives, provide to Workers' Claims a list of active cases. The active case list should be in
Excel format and include the claim number as well as the style of the case so that Workers' Claims may provide access numbers to those parties.
Please be advised, Workers' Claims will not be able to provide interested parties with access numbers without this information. Once a party, or a representative, has received the list of access numbers and has registered, the party, or representative, associate to claims using the Claim Number and Access Code in LMS. Users will thereafter be able to view all pleadings in their cases.
You can send active claims via USPS or email.
For USPS, please mail them to the following address:
ATTN: LMS Technical Team
DO NOT OPEN IN THE MAILROOM
Department of Workers' Claims
657 Chamberlin Avenue
Frankfort, Kentucky 40601
Email your active cases in Excel format to
LMS Technical Support.
Division of Workers' Compensation Funds
The Division of Workers' Compensation Funds ( formerly the Division of the Special Fund) is responsible for the administration of the Special Fund. In some cases the Special Fund is liable for part of the income benefits awarded for occupational injuries and diseases resulting from incidents or last exposures occurring prior to December 12, 1996. The Division pays about $50 million per year in total benefits to approximately 5,000 disabled workers or surviving dependents.
Benefits are funded by an assessment on Workers' Compensation insurance premiums collected by the Workers' Compensation Funding Commission.
Questions concerning the special fund or coal fund should be addressed to:
Contacts
Director
Marian Johnson
Division of Workers' Compensation Funds
46 Millcreek Park, Box 5
Frankfort, Kentucky 40601
Phone:
(502) 782-4418 Other questions concerning workers' compensation should be directed to:
Department of Workers' Claims
Phone:
(502) 564-5550
Toll-free:
(800) 554-8601 Links
Kentucky Workers' Compensation Funding Commission
Communications Network
The Communications Network is the e-mail distribution system used by the Kentucky Department of Workers’ Claims to communicate information to interested stakeholders.
If you would like to receive e-mails sent by the Department of Workers’ Claims, please send your contact information to Derrick Hill at
Derrick.Hill@ky.gov.
You may also contact Mr. Hill if you would like to be removed from this distribution list.
Statutes and Regulations
Title 803Regulations Governing the Workers' Compensation Act
803 KAR 25:089Update of the Physician Fee Schedule, Effective October 7, 2016
803 KAR 25:120Training or education programs eligible for retraining incentive benefits.
KRS 342.1241Legislative findings and declarations on Kentucky coal workers' pneumoconiosis fund.
KRS 342.1242Kentucky coal workers' pneumoconiosis fund -- Liability for and manner of making payments for awards for coal workers' pneumoconiosis -- Assessments to finance fund.
KRS 342.316Liability of employer and previous employers for occupational diseases -- Claims procedure -- Time limitations on claims -- Determination of liable employer -- Effect of concluded coal workers' pneumoconiosis claim -- Applicability of consensus procedure.
KRS 342.732Income benefits and retraining incentive benefits for coal workers' pneumoconiosis -- Referral to Office of Vocational Rehabilitation -- Administrative regulations.
KRS 342.792Consideration, reopening, and filing of claims of miners who were last exposed to hazards on certain dates -- Benefits -- Administrative regulations.
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