---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 920"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "920"
heading: "Presumptions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/920"
units:
  - "Chapter 18 — Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation"
---

# §920. Presumptions


In any proceeding for the enforcement of a claim for [compensation](/usc/33/902.md?p=12) under this chapter it shall be presumed, in the absence of substantial evidence to the contrary—

- (a) That the claim comes within the provisions of this chapter.
- (b) That sufficient notice of such claim has been given.
- (c) That the [injury](/usc/33/902.md?p=2) was not occasioned solely by the intoxication of the injured [employee](/usc/33/902.md?p=3).
- (d) That the [injury](/usc/33/902.md?p=2) was not occasioned by the willful intention of the injured [employee](/usc/33/902.md?p=3) to injure or kill himself or another.

## Source credit

(Mar. 4, 1927, ch. 509, § 20, 44 Stat. 1436.)