Definitions of Terms.
Article 165
ART. 165. Definitions of Terms. — As used in this Title, unless the context otherwise requires: "Appliance" means crutches, artificial members and other similar devices and their replacement or repair; "Commission" means the Employees Compensation Commission created under this Title; "Compensation" means all payments made under the provisions of this Title representing the sum of income benefits and medical and related benefits; "Contractor" means a person who contracts with another to have work performed of a kind which is a regular or recurrent part of the trade, business, occupation, or profession of such person; "Death" means loss of life resulting from an injury; "Disability" means loss or impairment of a physical or mental function; "GSIS" means the Government Service Insurance System created under Commonwealth Act Numbered One Hundred Eighty-six, as amended; "Income benefits" means payments made under the provisions of this Title to the injured employee, or to his dependents in case of death, other than medical and related benefits; "Injury" means any harmful change in the human organism arising out of and in the course of employment, or damage Lo or loss of prosthetic appliance, but does not include any communicable disease unless it is proven by the employee that the risk of contracting such disease is increased by the nature or conditions of employment; "Medical and related benefits" means payments made for medical, rehabilitation, hospital, burial and other services and supplies provided for in this Title other than income benefits, but including reasonable travel expenses between the employee's residence and the place of treatment or rehabilitation, as well as reasonable board and lodging expenses; "Person" includes any individual, partnership, firm, association, trust, corporation or legal representative thereof; "SSS" means the Social Security System created under Republic Act Numbered One Thousand One Hundred Sixty-one, as amended; "State Insurance Fund" means all premiums, monies, revenues, penalties and all other collections under this Title; "Subcontractor" means the other person with whom the contractor subcontracts all or parts of a contract; "Supplies" means medicine mid other medical, dental and surgical supplies; "System" means the SSS or the GSIS, as the case may be; and "Wages" means, in addition to money payments for services rendered, the reasonable value of board, rent, housing, lodging, fuel or similar supplements or facilities furnished by the employer.