Workers' Compensation - Authority to Make Statutory Payments

The Chief Financial Officer or his designee shall have authority, in proper cases under the Workers’ Compensation Act and Occupational Diseases Act as determined with advice of the General Counsel, to issue requisitions directing the payment of temporary total disability and statutory losses including statutory permanent total disability benefits to Board of Education employees who have sustained accidental injuries or incurred occupational diseases, and of medical and hospital expenses in such cases, without the adoption of Board Reports. Settlements of any Workers’ Compensation claims shall be in accordance with Board Rule 3-2.