231. Upon receiving the report, the Commission shall submit the worker’s record to a special committee composed of three persons whom it shall designate from among the chairmen of the committees on occupational lung diseases, except the chairman who made the report to be examined by the special committee.
The worker’s record includes the report of the committee on occupational lung diseases and all the documents used by the committee in arriving at its diagnosis and other findings.
The special committee shall confirm or quash the diagnosis and other findings arrived at by the committee on occupational lung diseases under the third paragraph of section 230 and substitute therefor its own diagnosis and findings, where necessary; it shall substantiate its opinion and give it to the Commission within twenty days of the date on which the Commission submitted the record to it.
1985, c. 6, s. 231; 2021, c. 272021, c. 27, s. 731.