- A. Every employer subject to the provisions of the Workers' Compensation Code shall pay or provide benefits according to the provisions of this act for the accidental injury or death of an employee arising out of and in the course of his or her employment, without regard to fault for such injury, if the employee's contract of employment was made or if the injury occurred within this state. If an employee makes claim for an injury in another jurisdiction and a final adjudication is entered in the case, the employee is precluded from his or her right of action under the Workers' Compensation Code of this state. If the employee brings an action in this state prior to a final adjudication in another jurisdiction, any receipt of benefits in the other jurisdiction shall not bar the action in this state; provided, however, in no event shall the Workers' Compensation Court grant benefits that duplicate those paid by the employer or insurance carrier in the other jurisdiction.
- B. The State of Oklahoma accepts the provisions of the Acts of Congress designated as 40 U.S.C., Section 3172, formerly 40 U.S.C., Section 290, and hereby extends the territorial jurisdiction of the Workers' Compensation Code of this state to all lands and premises within the exterior boundaries of this state which the Government of the United States of America owns or holds by deed or act of cession, and to all purchases, projects, buildings, constructions, improvements and property within the exterior boundaries of this state belonging to the Government of the United States of America, in the same way and to the same extent as if the premises were under the exclusive jurisdiction of this state, subject only to the limitations placed thereon by the Acts of Congress.
Added by Laws 2011, SB 878, c. 318, § 10.