(1) The Self-Insured Employer Adjustment Reserve and the Self-Insured Employer Group Adjustment Reserve shall be established within the Consumer and Business Services Fund. These reserves shall be used to pay the claims of workers of self-insured employers when the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services finds that the worker cannot obtain payment from the employer responsible for payment of the claim because of insolvency of such employer or the excess insurer of the employer, and exhaustion of the excess insurance and security deposited to secure such payment.
(2) If at any time the director finds that the amount of moneys in the reserves is not sufficient to carry out the purposes stated in subsection (1) of this section, the director may impose and collect from self-insured employers assessments sufficient to raise the amount of moneys in the reserves to the point where it can carry out such purposes. If at any time the director finds that there is a surplus in the reserves beyond an amount that can reasonably be anticipated as sufficient to carry out the purposes stated in subsection (1) of this section, the director may transfer the surplus to the Consumer and Business Services Fund and reduce the total amount of self-insured employer assessment by the amount so transferred.
(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, the director may impose a differential assessment between the two employers adjustment reserves in order to collect sufficient moneys in the reserves as provided in subsection (2) of this section.
(4) Assessments imposed under this section shall be paid to the director in the manner and at such times as the director may direct.
(5) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, the director may use the reserves to assure timely payment of compensation pending payment from the excess insurance or security deposit. The director shall recover these costs from the excess insurance or the security deposit, up to their limits. [1965 c.285 §67a; 1975 c.556 §46; 1979 c.845 §3; 1981 c.535 §42; 1983 c.816 §12]
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