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<section article="gle" article_name="Labor and Employment" number="9-101" title_number="9" title_name="Workers' Compensation" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Definitions; General Provisions">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this title the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Accidental personal injury” means:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>an accidental injury that arises out of and in the course of employment;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>an injury caused by a willful or negligent act of a third person directed against a covered employee in the course of the employment of the covered employee; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>a disease or infection that naturally results from an accidental injury that arises out of and in the course of employment, including:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>an occupational disease; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>frostbite or sunstroke caused by a weather condition.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Child” includes:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>an adopted child;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>an illegitimate child;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>a posthumous child; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>a stepchild.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Commission” means the State Workers’ Compensation Commission.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Compensation” means the money payable under this title to a covered employee or the dependents of a covered employee.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Compensation” includes funeral benefits payable under this title.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Covered employee” means an individual listed in Subtitle 2 of this title for whom a person, a governmental unit, or a quasi-public corporation is required by law to provide coverage under this title.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>“Occupational disease” means a disease contracted by a covered employee:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>as the result of and in the course of employment; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>that causes the covered employee to become temporarily or permanently, partially or totally incapacitated.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
