11-26-1
Section 11-26-1 Workers' compensation group authorized; counties as qualified self-insurers. Any county or group of counties, either individually or collectively, may establish a workers' compensation self-insurance group for the purpose of providing workers' compensation benefits for county officials and county employees. Member counties may appropriate such funds as necessary to the workers' compensation self-insurance group to provide such workers' compensation benefits. Member counties shall by the terms of this chapter be qualified as self-insurers under Title 25, Chapter 5, as amended generally and Section 25-5-9, specifically and such workers' compensation group shall be governed by the provisions of Sections 25-5-1 through 25-5-231, as amended. (Acts 1981, No. 81-265, p. 348, §1.)...
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25-5-316
Section 25-5-316 Workers' Compensation Administrative Trust Fund; creation; management; trustee and custodian; assessments; penalties. (a) There is established in the State Treasury a fund entitled the Workers' Compensation Administrative Trust Fund, into which shall be deposited certain assessments provided under Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 25-5-1) of Title 25 collected by the Department of Labor. The fund shall constitute a separate fund to be disbursed by the state Comptroller on order of the Secretary of the Department of Labor. All expenses incurred by the department under the Workers' Compensation Law, including the salaries of all employees, travel cost, and any other cost of administration and enforcement as may become necessary, either within or without the state, shall be paid from the separate fund in the State Treasury upon warrants of the state Comptroller drawn upon the State Treasury from time to time when vouchers therefor are approved by the secretary. The State...
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25-5-1
Section 25-5-1 Definitions. Throughout this chapter, the following words and phrases as used therein shall be considered to have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context shall clearly indicate a different meaning in the connection used: (1) COMPENSATION. The money benefits to be paid on account of injury or death, as provided in Articles 3 and 4. The recovery which an employee may receive by action at law under Article 2 of this chapter is termed "recovery of civil damages," as provided for in Sections 25-5-31 and 25-5-34. "Compensation" does not include medical and surgical treatment and attention, medicine, medical and surgical supplies, and crutches and apparatus furnished an employee on account of an injury. (2) CHILD or CHILDREN. The terms include posthumous children and all other children entitled by law to inherit as children of the deceased; stepchildren who were members of the family of the deceased, at the time of the accident, and were dependent upon him or...
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11-26-3
Section 11-26-3 Compensation group to establish trustees, bylaws, schedules, etc.; powers generally. Each workers' compensation self-insurance group established under the provisions of this chapter shall have the power and authority to establish a governing body of trustees; establish bylaws for the governing of such group; establish a schedule of benefits payable which are consistent with applicable state and federal laws; establish a schedule of charges to be collected from member counties for benefits provided which are consistent with applicable state and federal laws; enter into contracts with solvent insurance companies authorized to do business in this state; enter into management and consultant contracts; hire attorneys and employees; and exercise such other power and authority incident to the purposes of this chapter. (Acts 1981, No. 81-265, p. 348, §3.)...
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25-5-8
Section 25-5-8 Employers' options to secure payment of compensation. (a) Option to insure risks. An employer subject to this chapter may secure the payment of compensation under this chapter by insuring and keeping insured his or her liability in some insurance corporation, association, organization, insurance association, corporation, or association formed of employers and workers or formed by a group of employers to insure the risks under this chapter, operating by mutual assessment or other plans or otherwise. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the insurance association, organization, or corporation shall have first had its contract and plan of business approved in writing by the Commissioner of the Department of Insurance of Alabama and have been authorized by the Department of Insurance to transact the business of workers' compensation insurance in this state and under the plan. Notwithstanding any other provision of the law to the contrary, the obligations of employers under law for...
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25-5-293
Section 25-5-293 Duties of secretary; continuing education, accounting; recovery of expenses; advisory committees; legislative intent regarding reimbursements. (a) The Secretary of the Department of Labor may prescribe rules and regulations for the purpose of conducting continuing education seminars for all personnel associated with workers' compensation claims and collect registration fees in order to cover the related expenditures. The secretary may adopt rules and regulations setting continuing education standards for workers' compensation claims personnel employed by insurance companies and self-insured employers and groups. (b) The secretary shall file annually with the Governor and the presiding officer of each house of the Legislature a complete and detailed written report accounting for all funds received and disbursed during the preceding fiscal year. The annual report shall be in the form and reported in the time provided by law. (c) The secretary shall establish reasonable...
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27-31B-3
Section 27-31B-3 Licensing. (a) Any captive insurance company, when permitted by its articles of association, charter, or other organizational document, may apply to the commissioner for a license to do any and all insurance defined in Sections 27-5-2, 27-5-4, and 27-5-5, in subdivisions (1), (2), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), (10), (11), (12), (13), and (14) of subsection (a) of Section 27-5-6, in Sections 27-5-7, 27-5-8, 27-5-9, and 27-5-10, and to grant annuity contracts as defined in Section 27-5-3, subject, however, to all of the following: (1) No pure captive insurance company may insure any risks other than those of its parent and affiliated companies or controlled unaffiliated business. (2) No association captive insurance company may insure any risks other than those of the member organizations of its association, and their affiliated companies. (3) No industrial insured captive insurance company may insure any risks other than those of the industrial insureds that comprise...
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27-61-1
Section 27-61-1 Surplus Lines Insurance Multi-State Compliance Compact. The Surplus Lines Insurance Multi-State Compliance Compact Act is enacted into law and entered into with all jurisdictions mutually adopting the compact in the form substantially as follows: PREAMBLE WHEREAS, with regard to Non-Admitted Insurance policies with risk exposures located in multiple states, the 111th United States Congress has stipulated in Title V, Subtitle B, the Non-Admitted and Reinsurance Reform Act of 2010, of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, hereafter, the NRRA, that: (A) The placement of Non-Admitted Insurance shall be subject to the statutory and regulatory requirements solely of the insured's Home State, and (B) Any law, regulation, provision, or action of any State that applies or purports to apply to Non-Admitted Insurance sold to, solicited by, or negotiated with an insured whose Home State is another State shall be preempted with respect to such application;...
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27-60-2
Section 27-60-2 Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Compact. The State of Alabama hereby agrees to the following interstate compact known as the Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Compact: ARTICLE I. PURPOSES. The purposes of this compact are, through means of joint and cooperative action among the compacting states: 1. To promote and protect the interest of consumers of individual and group annuity, life insurance, disability income, and long-term care insurance products; 2. To develop uniform standards for insurance products covered under the compact; 3. To establish a central clearinghouse to receive and provide prompt review of insurance products covered under the compact and, in certain cases, advertisements related thereto, submitted by insurers authorized to do business in one or more compacting states; 4. To give appropriate regulatory approval to those product filings and advertisements satisfying the applicable uniform standard; 5. To improve coordination of...
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25-4-10
of this paragraph shall not be deemed to be applicable with respect to service performed in connection with commercial canning or commercial freezing or in connection with any agricultural or horticultural commodity after its delivery to a terminal market for distribution for consumption. e. On a farm operated for profit if such service is not in the course of the employer's trade or business. As used in this subdivision, the term "farm" includes stock, dairy, poultry, fruit, fur-bearing animal and truck farms, plantations, ranches, nurseries, ranges, greenhouses, or other similar structures used primarily for the raising of agricultural or horticultural commodities, and orchards. (2) Prior to January 1, 1978, domestic services in a private home, local college club, or local chapter of a college fraternity or sorority and after December 31, 1977, if the provisions of paragraph b. of subdivision (4) of subsection (a) of this section are not met. (3) Casual labor not in the usual...
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