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2009 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 342 WORKERS' COMPENSATION
342.340 Employer to insure or provide security against liability to workers -- Notification required.
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or shall furnish to the commissioner satisfactory proof of its financial ability to pay
directly the compensation in the amount and manner and when due as provided for
in this chapter. In the latter case, the commissioner shall require the deposit of an
acceptable security, indemnity, or bond to secure, to the extent the commissioner
directs, the payment of compensation liabilities as they are incurred. A public sector
self-insured employer shall not be required to deposit funds as security, indemnity,
or bond to secure the payment of liabilities under this chapter, if the public
employer has authority to raise taxes, notwithstanding provisions of KRS 68.245,
132.023, 132.027, and 160.470 relating to recall and reconsideration of local taxes;
raise tuition; issue bonds; raise fees or fares for services provided; or has other
authority to generate funds for its operation. (2) Every employer subject to this chapter shall file, or have filed on its behalf, with the department, as often as may be necessary, evidence of its compliance with the
provisions of this section and all others relating hereto. Any insurance carrier or
self-insured group providing workers' compensation insurance coverage for a
Kentucky location shall file on behalf of the employer, with the commissioner,
evidence of the employer's compliance with this chapter. Evidence of compliance
filed with the department may include a named additional insured who has been
provided proof of workers' compensation insurance coverage by the employer. The
filing shall be made within ten (10) days after the issuance of a policy, endorsement
to a policy, or similar documentation of coverage. Every employer who has
complied with the foregoing provision and has subsequently canceled its insurance
or its membership in an approved self-insured group, as the case may be, shall
immediately notify, or have notice given on its behalf to the department of the
cancellation, the date thereof, and the reasons therefor; and every insurance carrier
or self-insured group shall in like manner notify the commissioner upon the
cancellation, lapse, termination, expiration by reason of termination of policy
period, or nonrenewal of any policy issued by it or termination of any membership
agreement, whichever is applicable under the provisions of this chapter, except that
the carrier or self-insured group need not set forth its reasons therefor unless
requested by the commissioner. The above filings are to be made on the forms
prescribed by the commissioner. Termination of any policy of insurance issued
under the provisions of this chapter shall take effect no greater than ten (10) days
prior to the receipt of the notification by the commissioner unless the employer has
obtained other insurance and the commissioner is notified of that fact by the insurer
assuming the risk. Upon determination that any employer under this chapter has
failed to comply with these provisions, the commissioner shall promptly notify
interested government agencies of this failure and, with particular reference to
employers engaged in coal mining, the commissioner shall promptly report any failures to the Department for Natural Resources so that appropriate action may be
undertaken pursuant to KRS 351.175. (3) The Department of Workers' Claims shall notify a named additional insured at the address listed on the evidence of coverage under a workers' compensation insurance
policy upon the cancellation, lapse, termination, expiration, or nonrenewal of a
workers' compensation insurance policy issued by the insurance carrier. The notice
required in this subsection shall be provided by the department no later than ten (10)
days after the insurance notice is provided to the commissioner as required in
subsection (2) of this section. Effective: July 15, 2010
History: Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 24, sec. 1820, effective July 15, 2010. -- Amended 2008 Ky. Acts ch. 38, sec. 1, effective July 15, 2008. -- Amended 2007
Ky. Acts ch. 93, sec. 1, effective March 23, 2007. -- Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 7,
sec. 41, effective March 1, 2005. -- Amended 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 181, Part 11,
sec. 36, effective April 4, 1994. -- Amended 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 16, sec. 1, effective
July 13, 1990. -- Amended 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 426, sec. 2, effective July 15, 1982. --
Amended 1970 Ky. Acts ch. 16, sec. 4. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1,
effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 4946.
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