Bill Text: NY S07785 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires the workers' compensation board to appoint the uninsured employers' fund as the responsible party when the identity of the responsible insurance carrier for the employer cannot be determined within thirty days of the filing of a new claim.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-25 - SUBSTITUTED BY A8726 [S07785 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S07785-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7785 IN SENATE January 11, 2022 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to requiring the workers' compensation board to appoint the uninsured employers' fund as the responsible party when the identity of the responsible insurance carrier for the employer cannot be determined within thirty days of the filing of a new claim The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The opening paragraph and paragraph (a) of subdivision 6-a 2 of section 26-a of the workers' compensation law, as added by a chapter 3 of the laws of 2021, amending the workers' compensation law in relation 4 to requiring the workers' compensation board to appoint the uninsured 5 employers' fund as the insurance carrier in cases when the identity of 6 the responsible insurance carrier for the employer cannot be determined 7 within ten days of the filing of a claim and to proceed with hearings 8 and provide notices necessary to process such claim; and to make 9 conforming technical changes, as proposed in legislative bills numbers 10 S. 6628-A and A. 359-A, are amended to read as follows: 11 In the event that the board is unable to determine the identity of the 12 responsible insurance carrier for the employer within [ten] thirty days 13 of the filing of a new claim, the board shall: 14 (a) appoint the uninsured employers' fund as the [insurance carrier] 15 responsible party until such time as the identity of the responsible 16 insurance carrier for the employer is determined. Upon such appointment, 17 the uninsured employers' fund shall immediately commence payments and 18 provide medical care in accordance with the provisions of this chapter; 19 § 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same 20 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2021, amending the workers' compen- 21 sation law in relation to requiring the workers' compensation board to 22 appoint the uninsured employers' fund as the responsible party in cases 23 when the identity of the responsible insurance carrier for the employer 24 cannot be determined within thirty days of the filing of a new claim, as 25 proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 6628-A and A. 359-A, takes 26 effect. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05195-04-2