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[CITE: 33USC936]

 
                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
         CHAPTER 18--LONGSHORE AND HARBOR WORKERS' COMPENSATION
 
Sec. 936. Insurance policies

    (a) Every policy or contract of insurance issued under authority of 
this chapter shall contain (1) a provision to carry out the provisions 
of section 935 of this title, and (2) a provision that insolvency or 
bankruptcy of the employer and/or discharge therein shall not relieve 
the carrier from payment of compensation for disability or death 
sustained by an employee during the life of such policy or contract.
    (b) No contract or policy of insurance issued by a carrier under 
this chapter shall be canceled prior to the date specified in such 
contract or policy for its expiration until at least thirty days have 
elapsed after a notice of cancellation has been sent to the deputy 
commissioner and to the employer in accordance with the provisions of 
subsection (c) of section 912 of this title.

(Mar. 4, 1927, ch. 509, Sec. 36, 44 Stat. 1441.)