2012 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 342 WORKERS' COMPENSATION 342.790 Award against noncomplying employer as a liquidated claim for damages -- Action by Attorney General for uninsured employers' fund.
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342.790 Award against noncomplying employer as a liquidated claim for damages - Action by Attorney General for uninsured employers' fund.
When an award is made against an employer who:
(1) Has not secured payment of compensation by either securing insurance coverage or
qualifying as a self-insurer; and
(2) Has not made a deposit of security, indemnity, or bond acceptable to the
commissioner to secure the payment of compensation liability; and
(3) Has failed to make payment of compensation according to the terms of that award,
the award shall constitute a liquidated claim for damages against that employer in
an amount commuted to a lump sum which will equal the present value of the total
sum of the probable future payments discounted at four percent (4%) true discount
compounded annually on each payment, which amount is to be ascertained and
fixed by the commissioner, and the commissioner shall certify the same to the
Attorney General who shall forthwith institute a civil action against that employer
in the name of the uninsured employers' fund for the collection of that award. In that
action, it shall be sufficient for plaintiff to set forth a copy of the award of the
administrative law judge relative to the claim as certified by the commissioner and
to state that there is due to plaintiff on account of the opinion, order, or award of the
administrative law judge a specified sum which plaintiff claims with interest. A
certified copy of the award in the claim shall be attached to the complaint and shall
constitute prima facie evidence of the truth of the facts therein contained.
Effective: July 15, 2010
History: Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 24, sec. 1850, effective July 15, 2010. -Amended 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 514, sec. 35, effective July 14, 2000. -- Amended 1996
(1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 1, sec. 69, effective December 12, 1996. -- Amended
1994 Ky. Acts ch. 181, Part 15, sec. 98, effective April 4, 1994. -- Amended 1987
(1st. Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 1, sec. 59, effective January 4, 1988. -- Created 1976
Ky. Acts ch. `160, sec. 3.
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