2017 Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XXIV BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
Chapter 374 Department of Insurance, Financial Institutions and Professional Registration
Section 374.270 Department may elect workers' compensation coverage — coverage, how provided.

Effective 28 Aug 1967

Title XXIV BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

374.270. Department may elect workers' compensation coverage — coverage, how provided. — 1. The department of insurance, financial institutions and professional registration may elect, under the provisions of section 287.030, to come under the provisions of chapter 287, governing workers' compensation, and that law is extended to include all employees of the department of insurance, financial institutions and professional registration under any contract of hire, express or implied, oral or written, or under any appointment or election. The state of Missouri may be a self-insurer and assume all liability imposed by chapter 287, in respect to the department of insurance, financial institutions and professional registration employees, without insurance. The attorney general shall appear on behalf of and defend the state in all actions, when the state is a self-insurer, brought by employees of the department of insurance, financial institutions and professional registration referred to herein under the provisions of the workers' compensation law.

2. The workers' compensation coverage may be provided by the purchase of insurance or by the deposit in the commissioner of administration's office of a fund from which workers' compensation benefits to employees shall be paid. Purchase of the insurance or the deposit of a fund shall be made from general appropriations.

3. The department of insurance, financial institutions and professional registration shall adopt rules classifying the employees mentioned herein who may be eligible for compensation under this section, and its classification shall be decisive as to whether or not an employee falls within the definition of an employee eligible for workers' compensation coverage under this section.

4. The director of the department of insurance, financial institutions and professional registration is authorized to perform such duties as may be necessary to carry out effectively the purposes of this section.

(L. 1967 p. 516)