Kansas Statutes Annotated
K.S.A. § 44-5a16 (2026)
Dermatitis; disability after receiving compensation; effect
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44-5a16. Dermatitis; disability after receiving compensation; effect. A person who has suffered disability from dermatitis and has received compensation therefor shall not be entitled to compensation for disability from a later attack of dermatitis due to substantially the same cause, unless, immediately preceding the date of the later disablement, he has been engaged in the occupation to which the recurrence of the disease is ascribed and under the same employer for at least sixty (60) days.
History: L. 1953, ch. 246, § 16; July 1.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1
case, 1968–1968 · leading case: Bayless v. List & Clark Constr. Co., 441 P.2d 841 (Kan. 1968).
Bayless v. List & Clark Constr. Co., 441 P.2d 841 (Kan. 1968). “The issue on appeal is whether a workman disabled by dermatitis is barred from recovering compensation by the provisions of K.S.A. 44-5a16. K.S.A. 44-5a16 provides: "A person who has suffered disability from dermatitis and has received compensation therefor shall not be entitled…”
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