If any installment of compensation payable in accordance with the terms of an agreement approved by the commission without an award is not paid within fourteen days after it becomes due, as provided in Section 42-9-230, or if any installment of compensation payable in accordance with the terms of an award by the commission is not paid within fourteen days after it becomes due, as provided in Section 42-9-240, there shall be added to such unpaid installment an amount equal to ten per cent thereof, which shall be paid at the same time as, but in addition to, such installment, unless such nonpayment is excused by the commission after a showing by the employer that owing to conditions over which he had no control such installment could not be paid within the period prescribed for the payment.
S.C. Code Ann. § 42-9-90
Increase in compensation which is not paid when due
Known as the The South Carolina Workers' Compensation Law
The act spans §§ 42–42 (216 sections).
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Johnson v. Sonoco Products Co. (2009)
Most recently applied in Hudson ex rel. Hudson v. Lancaster Convalescent Center (January 2014)
1962 Code SECTION 72-159; 1952 Code SECTION 72-159; 1942 Code SECTION 7035-21; 1936 (39) 1231.
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