California Labor Code ARTICLE 2 - Uninsured Employers Fund

  • Section 3710.
    (a) The Director of Industrial Relations shall enforce the provisions of this article. The director may employ necessary investigators, clerks, and other employees, and make use...
  • Section 3710.1.
    Where an employer has failed to secure the payment of compensation as required by Section 3700, the director shall issue and serve on such employer...
  • Section 3710.2.
    Failure of an employer, officer, or anyone having direction, management, or control of any place of employment or of employees to observe a stop order...
  • Section 3710.3.
    Whenever a stop order has been issued pursuant to Section 3710.1 to a motor carrier of property subject to the jurisdiction and control of the...
  • Section 3711.
    The director, an investigator for the Department of Insurance Fraud Bureau or its successor, or a district attorney investigator assigned to investigate workers’ compensation fraud...
  • Section 3712.
    (a) The securing of the payment of compensation in a way provided in this division is essential to the functioning of the expressly declared social public...
  • Section 3714.
    (a) All cases involving the Uninsured Employers Fund or the Subsequent Injuries Fund as a party or involving death without dependents shall only be heard for...
  • Section 3715.
    (a) Any employee, except an employee as defined in subdivision (d) of Section 3351, whose employer has failed to secure the payment of compensation as required...
  • Section 3716.
    (a) If the employer fails to pay the compensation required by Section 3715 to the person entitled thereto, or fails to furnish the bond required by...
  • Section 3716.1.
    (a) In any hearing, investigation, or proceeding, the Attorney General, or attorneys of the Department of Industrial Relations, shall represent the director and the state. Expenses...
  • Section 3716.2.
    Notwithstanding the precise elements of an award of compensation benefits, and notwithstanding the claim and demand for payment being made therefor to the director, the...
  • Section 3716.3.
    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, when the director obtains a judgment against an uninsured employer, the director may, in addition to...
  • Section 3716.4.
    Whenever a final judgment has been entered against a motor carrier of property subject to the jurisdiction and control of the Department of Motor Vehicles...
  • Section 3716.5.
    In the payment of workers’ compensation benefits from the Uninsured Employers Fund, the director shall do the following:(a) Designate the job classifications of employees who are...
  • Section 3717.
    (a) A findings and award that is the subject of a demand on the Uninsured Employers Fund or an approved compromise and release or stipulated findings...
  • Section 3717.1.
    In any claim in which an alleged uninsured employer is a corporation, the director may cause substantial shareholders and parents, as defined by Section 3717,...
  • Section 3717.2.
    Upon request of the director, the appeals board shall make findings of whether persons are substantial shareholders or parents, as defined in Section 3717. The...
  • Section 3718.
    The cause of action provided in Section 3717 and any cause of action arising out of Section 3722 may be joined in one action against...
  • Section 3719.
    Any suit, action, proceeding, or award brought or made against any employer under Section 3717 may be compromised by the director, or such suit, action,...
  • Section 3720.
    (a) When the appeals board or the director determines under Section 3715 or 3716 that an employer has not secured the payment of compensation as required...
  • Section 3720.1.
    (a) In any claim in which the alleged uninsured employer is a corporation, for purposes of filing certificates of lien pursuant to Section 3720, the director...
  • Section 3721.
    The director shall provide the employer with a certificate of cancellation of lien after the employer has paid to the claimant or to the Uninsured...
  • Section 3722.
    (a) At the time the stop order is issued and served pursuant to Section 3710.1, the director shall also issue and serve a penalty assessment order...
  • Section 3725.
    If an employer desires to contest a penalty assessment order, the employer shall file with the director a written request for a hearing within 15...
  • Section 3726.
    (a) When no petition objecting to a penalty assessment order is filed, a certified copy of the order may be filed by the director in the...
  • Section 3727.
    If the director determines pursuant to Section 3722 that an employer has failed to secure the payment of compensation as required by this division, the...
  • Section 3727.1.
    The director may withdraw a stop order or a penalty assessment order where investigation reveals the employer had secured the payment of compensation as required...
  • Section 3728.
    (a) The director may draw from the State Treasury out of the Uninsured Employers Benefits Trust Fund for the purposes of Sections 3716 and 3716.1, without...
  • Section 3730.
    When the last day for filing any instrument or other document pursuant to this chapter falls upon a Saturday, Sunday or other holiday, such act...
  • Section 3731.
    Any stop order or penalty assessment order may be personally served upon the employer either by (1) manual delivery of the order to the employer...
  • Section 3732.
    (a) If compensation is paid or becomes payable from the Uninsured Employers Fund, whether as a result of a findings and award, award based upon stipulations,...
  • Section 3733.
    (a) The Legislature finds and declares that it is in the best interest of the State of California to provide a person, regardless of his or...

Last modified: October 22, 2018