1. If an employer or insurer requests a hearing before a hearing officer or appeals officer relating to a claim for compensation, and the hearing results in a decision favorable to the employee, the employee is entitled to receive reimbursement from the insurer for: (a) The employee’s actual expenses necessarily incurred for travel to and from the hearing, if the employee is required to travel more than 20 miles one way from his or her residence or place of employment to the hearing; and (b) Any regular wages lost as a result of his or her attending the hearing. 2. The Division shall adopt regulations governing the procedure and forms to be used for the reimbursement provided by subsection 1. (Added to NRS by 1985, 1575; A 1993, 1870)—(Substituted in revision for NRS 616.5428)
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