37-107-5 - Determining permanent and total disability. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 37-107-5. Determining permanent and total disability.
 

Any law enforcement officer, full-time firefighter or volunteer firefighter claiming permanent and total disability under this chapter shall be qualified, or disqualified, for such claim upon examination and decision by any two (2) of the three (3) following staff members of the University of Mississippi Medical Center: (a) chairman of the board of medicine, (b) chief of the division of orthopedics, and (c) professor and chairman of surgery. 
 

The expenses of such examination shall be the responsibility of the individual claimant unless otherwise provided for by a municipality, county or the state. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1942, § 6726.9-02; Laws,  1971, ch. 373, § 2; Laws, 1985, ch. 517, § 3, eff from and after July 1, 1985.