California Labor Code ARTICLE 1 - Insurance and Security

• Section 3700.
  Every employer except the state shall secure the payment of compensation in one or more of the following ways:(a) By being insured against liability to pay...
• Section 3700.1.
  As used in this article:(a) “Director” means the Director of Industrial Relations.(b) “Private self-insurer” means a private employer which has secured the payment of compensation pursuant to...
• Section 3700.5.
  (a) The failure to secure the payment of compensation as required by this article by one who knew, or because of his or her knowledge or...
• Section 3701.
  (a) Each year every private self-insuring employer shall secure incurred liabilities for the payment of compensation and the performance of the obligations of employers imposed under...
• Section 3701.3.
  The director shall return to a private self-insured employer all individual security determined, with the consent of the Self-Insurers’ Security Fund, to be in excess...
• Section 3701.5.
  (a) If the director determines that a private self-insured employer has failed to pay workers’ compensation as required by this division, the security deposit shall be...
• Section 3701.7.
  Where any employer requesting coverage under a new or existing certificate of consent to self-insure has had a period of unlawful uninsurance, either for an...
• Section 3701.8.
  (a) As an alternative to each private self-insuring employer securing its own incurred liabilities as provided in Section 3701, the director may provide by regulation for...
• Section 3701.9.
  (a) A certificate of consent to self-insure shall not be issued after January 1, 2013, to any of the following:(1) A professional employer organization.(2) A leasing employer, as...
• Section 3702.
  (a) A certificate of consent to self-insure may be revoked by the director at any time for good cause after a hearing. Good cause includes, among...
• Section 3702.1.
  (a) No person, firm, or corporation, other than an insurer admitted to transact workers’ compensation insurance in this state, shall contract to administer claims of self-insured...
• Section 3702.2.
  (a) All self-insured employers shall file a self-insurer’s annual report in a form prescribed by the director. Public self-insured employers shall provide detailed information as the...
• Section 3702.3.
  Failure to submit reports or information as deemed necessary by the director to implement the purposes of Section 3701, 3702, or 3702.2 may result in...
• Section 3702.5.
  (a) (1) The cost of administration of the public self-insured program by the Director of Industrial Relations shall be borne by the Workers’ Compensation Administration Revolving Fund.(2) The...
• Section 3702.6.
  (a) The director shall establish an audit program addressing the adequacy of estimates of future liability of claims for all private self-insured employers, and shall ensure...
• Section 3702.7.
  A certificate of consent to administer claims of self-insured employers may be revoked by the director at any time for good cause after a hearing....
• Section 3702.8.
  (a) Employers who have ceased to be self-insured employers shall discharge their continuing obligations to secure the payment of workers’ compensation that accrued during the period...
• Section 3702.9.
  (a) In addition to remedies and penalties otherwise provided for a failure to secure the payment of compensation, the director may, after a determination that an...
• Section 3702.10.a.
  The director, in accordance with Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, may...
• Section 3703.
  So long as the certificate has not been revoked, and the self-insurer maintains on deposit the requisite bond or securities, the self-insurer shall not be...
• Section 3705.
  The Self-Insurers’ Security Fund or the surety making payment of compensation hereunder shall have the same preference over the other debts of the principal or...
• Section 3706.
  If any employer fails to secure the payment of compensation, any injured employee or his dependents may bring an action at law against such employer...
• Section 3706.5.
  The provisions of this article and Sections 4553, 4554, and 4555, and any other penalty provided by law for failure to secure the payment of...
• Section 3707.
  The injured employee or his dependents may in such action attach the property of the employer, at any time upon or after the institution of...
• Section 3708.
  In such action it is presumed that the injury to the employee was a direct result and grew out of the negligence of the employer,...
• Section 3708.5.
  If an employee brings such an action for damages, the employee shall forthwith give a copy of the complaint to the Uninsured Employers Fund of...
• Section 3709.
  If, as a result of such action for damages, a judgment is obtained against the employer, any compensation awarded, paid, or secured by the employer...
• Section 3709.5.
  After the payment of attorney’s fees fixed by the court, the employer shall be relieved from the obligation to pay further compensation to or on...

Last modified: October 22, 2018