2019 Georgia Code
Title 34 - Labor and Industrial Relations
Appendix: Rules and Regulations of the State Board of Workers' Compensation
§ 381. Definitions as used in this Article

(a) "Applicant" means an employee entitled to workers' compensation benefits.

(b) "Board" means the State Board of Workers' Compensation.

(c) "Board of trustees" means the Board of trustees of the Fund.

(d) "Company" means a corporation, association, partnership, proprietorship, firm, or other form of business organization.

(e) "Fund" means the Self-Insurers Guaranty Trust Fund.

(f) "Insolvent self-insurer" means a self-insurer who files for relief under the Federal Bankruptcy Act, a self-insurer against whom involuntary bankruptcy proceedings are filed, or a self-insurer for whom a receiver is appointed in a federal or state court of this state or any other jurisdiction or a self-insurer who is determined by the Board to be in noncompliance with workers' compensation obligations or requirements according to rules and regulations of the Board.

(g) "Participant" means a self-insurer who is a member of the Fund.

(h) "Self-insurer" means a private employer, including any hospital authority created pursuant to the provisions of Article 4 of Chapter 7 of Title 31, the "Hospital Authorities Law," that has been authorized to self-insure its payment of workers' compensation benefits pursuant to this Chapter, except any governmental self-insurer or other employer who elects to group self-insure pursuant to Code Section 34-9-152, or captive insurers as provided for in Chapter 41 of Title 33, or employers who, pursuant to any reciprocal agreements or contracts of indemnity executed prior to March 8, 1960, created funds for the purpose of satisfying the obligations of self-insured employers under this chapter. A "self-insurer" shall further not include any individual or company who enters into a contract or agreement with an employer under which the employer outsources its workers' compensation risks, responsibilities, obligations or liabilities to such individual or company; and pursuant to such contract or agreement, is required to provide workers' compensation benefits to an injured employee even though no common-law master-servant relationship or contract of employments exists between the injured employee and the individual or company providing the benefits.

(i) "Trustee" means a member of the Self-Insurers Guaranty Trust Fund Board of Trustees.