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Insurance Code § 11696

ARTICLE 1. Deposits by Workers’ Compensation Insurers

Current as of September 28, 2026Ins. Code, § 11696Official source ↗

Added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 899, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2003.

In the event an insurer not in a delinquency proceeding fails to pay any compensable workers’ compensation claim against it, or fails to pay, to the extent of its liability as a reinsurer, any compensable workers’ compensation claim covered by a policy wholly or partly reinsured by it, the commissioner shall use the proceeds of the deposit required pursuant to Section 11691 to pay all those compensable workers’ compensation claims and related expenses as described in Section 11698.02.