Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 34. LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS · Chapter 9. WORKERS’ COMPENSATION · Article 10. SELF-INSURERS GUARANTY TRUST FUND

34-9-380. Purpose of article.

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It is the purpose of this article through the establishment of a guaranty trust fund to provide for the continuation of workers’ compensation benefits due and unpaid, excluding penalties, fines, and attorneys’ fees assessed against a participant, when such participant becomes an insolvent self-insurer.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 34-9-380, enacted by Ga. L. 1990, p. 770, § 1; Ga. L. 2010, p. 126, § 4/HB 1101; Ga. L. 2016, p. 287, § 6/HB 818.

Law reviews

For annual survey of law on labor and employment law, see 62 Mercer L. Rev. 181 (2010). For annual survey of law on workers’ compensation, see 62 Mercer L. Rev. 383 (2010).

Other notes

The 2016 amendment, effective July 1, 2016, substituted ‘‘such participant becomes an insolvent self-insurer’’ for ‘‘a self-insured employer becomes insolvent’’ at the end of this Code section.

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