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NJ Rev Stat § 34:15-90.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:15-90.1 - Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau continued; directors, appointment, terms.

34:15-90.1 Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau continued; directors, appointment, terms.  1. a. The Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau, established and continued by R.S.34:15-89, consisting of all insurers authorized to write workers' compensation or employers' liability insurance within this State as provided under R.S.34:15-90, is continued as provided by this act. No insurer shall write workers' compensation or employers' liability insurance in this State unless it is a member of the Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau. Each member of the Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau shall have one representative entitled to one vote in the administration of the Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau's affairs. b. The Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau shall be governed by a committee of 10 directors. The Commissioner of Banking and Insurance or his designee shall serve as an ex-officio, non-voting director. Six directors of the governing committee shall be elected by the insurer members as provided in the approved plan of operation. Three directors shall be appointed by the commissioner: one of whom shall be an individual appointed from a list or lists of nominees provided by one or more recognized Statewide organizations representing licensed insurance producers; one of whom shall be an individual appointed from a list or lists of nominees provided by one or more recognized Statewide business organizations; and one of whom shall be an individual appointed from a list or lists of nominees provided by one or more recognized Statewide labor organizations. Initially, two of the elected directors and one of the appointed directors shall serve for a term of three years; two of the elected directors and one of the appointed directors shall serve for a term of two years; and two of the elected directors and one of the appointed directors shall serve for a term of one year. Thereafter, all board members shall serve for a term of three years. Vacancies shall be filled in the same manner as the original selection. L.2008, c.97, s.1.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:15-90.2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:15-90.2 - Authority of Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau.

34:15-90.2 Authority of Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau.  2. The Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau shall have authority to: a. Enter into contracts as are necessary or proper to carry out the provisions and purposes of this act; b. Sue or be sued, including taking any legal actions as may be necessary for recovery of any assessments; c. Establish rules, conditions, and procedures for assessment of its members; d. Assess members in accordance with chapter 15 of Title 34 of the Revised Statutes; e. Appoint from among its members appropriate legal, actuarial, and other subcommittees of the governing committee as necessary to provide technical assistance in the operation of the bureau; f. Establish and maintain rules, regulations and premium rates for workers' compensation and employers' liability insurance and equitably adjust the same, as far as practical, to the hazard of individual risks, by inspection by the bureau; g. Adopt means for assuring uniform and accurate audit of payrolls as they relate to policies of workers' compensation and employers' liability insurance by auditors, appointed by the bureau, or by such other means as the bureau may, with the approval of the commissioner, establish; h. Furnish upon request to any of its members or to any employer upon whose risks a rating has been promulgated by it, information as to such rating, including the method of its computation, and shall encourage employers to reduce the number and severity of accidents by adjusting premiums and rates through the use of credits and debits or other proper factors, under such uniform system of experience or other forms of merit rating as may be approved by the commissioner; i. Prepare and file, for the approval of the commissioner, and for the use by all of its members, any amendments to its policy forms and its system of classification of risks and premiums thereto, together with the basis rates and system of merit or schedule rating applicable to such insurance, as currently set forth in the New Jersey Workers' Compensation and Employers' Liability Insurance Manual; j. Develop and submit, for the approval of the commissioner, any amendments to its rules of procedure as currently set forth in the New Jersey Workers' Compensation and Employers' Liability Insurance Manual; k. Resolve disputes concerning the application of its rating system to specific cases, in accordance with the workers' compensation and employers' liability insurance policy and the bureau's rules of procedure, subject to appeal to the commissioner; and l. Take such other actions as may be reasonable and necessary to carry out its functions as provided in its approved rules of procedures, or as directed by the commissioner. L.2008, c.97, s.2.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:15-90.3 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:15-90.3 - Effective date.

34:15-90.3 Effective date.  4. This act shall take effect July 1, 2009, except that the Commissioner of Banking and Insurance may take such anticipatory administrative action in advance as shall be necessary for the orderly transition of the new Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau and proper implementation of this act. L.2008, c.97, s.4.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:15-91 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:15-91 - Actuary and additional assistants in insurance department

34:15-91. Actuary and additional assistants in insurance department  The commissioner of banking and insurance is authorized to employ an actuary and necessary assistants and to fix their compensation, subject to the provisions of Title 11, Civil Service, except where otherwise provided by statute; to compel the production of all books, data, papers and records necessary for the actuary to compile statistics for determining the pure cost of workmen's compensation and employers' liability insurance; and to examine, either personally or through any person appointed by him, the pay roll records and workmen's compensation or employers' liability policies and all data relating to such records and policies of any employer subject to the provisions of this article in order to determine whether such provisions are being complied with. The information in the possession of the actuary shall be available to the compensation rating and inspection bureau in fixing rates.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:15-92 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:15-92 - Domestic help excepted

34:15-92. Domestic help excepted  Each employer of domestic servants or household employees and every stock company or mutual association affording insurance for the liability of such employers by reason of that employment shall be exempted from the provisions of R.S. 34:15-79, and R.S. 34:15-80. The provisions of R.S. 34:15-81 shall not be applicable where the insurance coverage is afforded pursuant to P.L......., c...... (now pending before the Legislature as Assembly Bill No. 949 of 1978). Amended by L.1969, c. 212, s. 1; L.1979, c. 380, s. 3.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:15-92.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:15-92.1 - Other exceptions

34:15-92.1. Other exceptions  If and when any class or classes of employers or employees shall be excepted from the provisions of article 2 of this chapter (s. 34:15-7 et seq.) by an act or acts of the legislature, such employers as may be thereby excepted shall, from the date when such act or acts shall become effective, be likewise excepted from the provisions of this article.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:15-93 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:15-93 - Expense of enforcement; payments by insurers

34:15-93. Expense of enforcement; payments by insurers  To defray the expenses of the commissioner of banking and insurance in carrying out the provisions of this article, each mutual association and each stock company writing workmen's compensation or employers' liability insurance in this state shall annually on or before the first day of June of each year pay to the state tax commissioner for the use of the state a sum equal to one-quarter of one per cent of the net premiums received by it for workmen's compensation and employers' liability insurance written or renewed by it on risks within the state as reported to the commissioner of banking and insurance for the calendar year next preceding the due date of such payment. The commissioner of banking and insurance shall annually on or before June first of each year ascertain and report to the state tax commissioner all facts necessary to enable the latter to determine, fix and collect all sums payable under this section.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:15-95.1 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:15-95.1 - Application for benefits; decision; review; Commissioner of Labor as party

34:15-95.1. Application for benefits; decision; review; Commissioner of Labor as party  Applications for benefits under this act shall be made by a verified petition filed in duplicate within 2 years after the date of the last payment of compensation by the employer or the insurance carrier addressed to the Commissioner of Labor who shall refer it to a judge of Compensation to hear testimony and for a decision as to whether the petitioner shall or shall not be admitted to the benefits provided under this act; provided, however, that the limitation herein shall not apply to those persons now receiving or who have received compensation payments from said fund and whose accident occurred since June 27, 1923. Review of said decision shall be in accordance with R.S. 34:15-66. In all proceedings affecting the fund under this act the Commissioner of Labor shall be a necessary party. L.1938, c. 198, p. 476, s. 3. Amended by L.1940, c. 133, p. 291, s. 2; L.1983, c. 421, s. 1, eff. Jan. 5, 1984.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:15-95.2 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:15-95.2 - Vested rights

34:15-95.2. Vested rights  No person shall be deemed to acquire or to have acquired any vested rights, under the provisions of this section. L.1940, c. 133, p. 291, s. 3.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:15-95.3 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:15-95.3 - Application of chapter; exemption of mutual agricultural insurance companies

34:15-95.3. Application of chapter; exemption of mutual agricultural insurance companies  Nothing in this article (s. 34:15-70 et seq.) shall apply to any mutual agricultural insurance company incorporated under chapter 252 of the laws of 1905, being "A supplement to an act entitled "An act to provide for the regulation and incorporation of insurance companies and to regulate the transaction of insurance business in this State,' approved April 3, 1902," so long as any such company continues to confine the issuance of its policies of insurance to persons engaged in agricultural pursuits. L.1954, c. 191, p. 721, s. 1.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:15-95.5 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:15-95.5 - Reduction of disability benefits for persons under age sixty-two; exception

34:15-95.5. Reduction of disability benefits for persons under age sixty-two; exception  For persons under the age of 62 receiving benefits as provided under R.S. 34:15-95, or R.S. 34:15-12(b), and whose period of disability began after December 31, 1979, such compensation benefits shall be reduced by an amount equal to the disability benefits payable under the Federal Old-Age, Survivors' and Disability Insurance Act, as now or hereafter amended, not to exceed the amount of the reduction established pursuant to 42 U.S.C. s. 424a. However, such reduction shall not apply when the combined disability benefits provided under R.S. 34:15-95, or R.S. 34:15-12(b), and the Federal Old-Age, Survivors' and Disability Insurance Act is less than the total benefits to which the Federal reduction would apply, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. s. 424a. Where any person refuses to authorize the release of information concerning the amount of benefits payable under said Federal act, the division's estimate of said amount shall be deemed to be correct unless and until the actual amount is established, and no adjustment shall be made for any period of time covered by any such refusal. L.1980, c. 83, s. 9, eff. August 21, 1980. Amended by L.1983, c. 97, s. 1, eff. March 11, 1983.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:15-95.7 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:15-95.7 - Determination of aggregate annual surcharge.

34:15-95.7 Determination of aggregate annual surcharge.  2. In making the determination of the aggregate annual surcharge for the Second Injury Fund to be levied pursuant to paragraph (4) of subsection c. of R.S.34:15-94 for calendar year 2020, the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development shall include the anticipated additional amounts, including administrative costs, required for the payment of supplemental benefits which shall begin on January 1, 2020 pursuant to section 1 of P.L.2019, c.127 (C.34:15-95.6). L.2019, c.127, s.2.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:15-96 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:15-96 - First report of accident.

34:15-96 First report of accident.  34:15-96. First report of accident. Every employer who has made provisions for payment of obligations to an injured employee as required by article 5 of this chapter (R.S.34:15-70 et seq.) shall, upon the happening of any accident or the occurrence of any compensable occupational disease in its establishment, promptly furnish the insurance carrier, or the third party administrator, if applicable, with information necessary to enable it to carry out the intent of this chapter. Within three weeks after learning of an accident, or obtaining knowledge of the occurrence of a compensable occupational disease, every insurance carrier, third party administrator, statutory non-insured employer, including the State, county, municipality or school district, and duly authorized self-insured employer not utilizing a third party administrator shall file a report designated as "first notice of accident" in electronic data interchange media with the Division of Workers' Compensation through the Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau in a format prescribed by the Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau with a report sent to the employer. The reports, if filed through interim vendors, shall not be used for any purpose other than formatting and transmitting this information to the Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau and the Division of Workers' Compensation. For purposes of this section, "interim vendor" means a software supplier, network service provider, programming consultants or an insurance support organization, except that an insurance support organization may disclose the information to prevent the misrepresentation or nondisclosure of information which is material to an insurance claim. If the employer disagrees with the report, the employer may prepare and sign an amended report and file it with the insurance carrier, or third party administrator, if applicable. Any resultant change shall be filed by the insurance carrier, or third party administrator, if applicable, with the Division of Workers' Compensation through the Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau as provided for in this section. The Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau shall make provisions to insure that information received pursuant to this section shall be readily available to the Division of Workers' Compensation or any person authorized by the Commissioner of Labor pursuant to R.S.34:15-99. Amended 2001, c.326, s.1.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:15-98 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:15-98 - Final report of accident.

34:15-98 Final report of accident.  34:15-98. Final report of accident. Not more than 26 weeks after an insurance carrier, third party administrator, self-insured employer or statutory non-insured employer learns that an employee has recovered so as to be able to resume work or has reached maximum medical improvement prior to resumption of work, the insurance carrier, third party administrator, self-insured employer or statutory non-insured employer shall prepare a final report, and take the steps necessary to have it copied to the employee. The report shall be transmitted to the Division of Workers' Compensation through the Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau in the manner prescribed in R.S.34:15-96. This report shall be fully prepared before presentation to the employee. It shall be unlawful to present any injured employee with a blank report to be later filled out and filed with the Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau. If the employee disagrees with the report, the employee may forward written objections directly to the Division of Workers' Compensation with a copy to the insurance carrier, third party administrator, self-insured employer or statutory non-insured employer, if applicable. Any resultant change to the final report shall be filed by the insurance carrier, third party administrator, self-insured employer or statutory non-insured employer with the Division of Workers' Compensation through the Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau in the manner prescribed in R.S.34:15-96. The report shall be retained by the insurance carrier, third party administrator, self-insured employer or statutory non-insured employer for 10 years. Any written objections forwarded by an employee to the Division of Workers' Compensation pursuant to this section shall be retained by the division for 10 years. The Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau shall insure that information received pursuant to this section shall be readily available to the Division of Workers' Compensation or any person authorized by the Commissioner of Labor pursuant to R.S.34:15-99. Amended 2001, c.326, s.2.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:15-99 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:15-99 - Report not public.

34:15-99 Report not public.  34:15-99. Report not public. The reports of accidents filed with, or transmitted or forwarded to, the Division of Workers' Compensation or the Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau, shall not be made public, and shall not be open to inspection unless, in the opinion of the Commissioner of Labor, some public interest shall so require, and such reports shall not be used as evidence against any employer in any suit or action at law brought by an employee for the recovery of damages. Amended 2001, c.326, s.3.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:15-100 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:15-100 - Medical reports

34:15-100. Medical reports  As a part of the necessary medical service required by the compensation law, the employer or insurance carrier shall, when directed so to do, file with the workmen's compensation bureau copies of such medical certificates or reports as it may have on file.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:15-101 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:15-101 - Penalty for noncompliance

34:15-101. Penalty for noncompliance  Every employer, insurer or other person failing to comply with the terms of this article shall, for each offense, be liable to a penalty of not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars, the amount thereof to be determined by and paid to the commissioner of labor. Upon refusal to pay such fine, the same shall be recovered in an action at law by the commissioner of labor in the name of the state of New Jersey.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:15-102 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:15-102 - Rules and regulations; agreements filed

34:15-102. Rules and regulations; agreements filed  The workmen's compensation bureau is authorized to make such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the purpose of this article and the bureau is hereby directed to keep on file the agreements filed with it for a period of eight years. Any agreement, however, covering a period greater than eight years shall be kept on file for the full term of the agreement.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:15-103 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:15-103 - Short title

34:15-103. Short title  This article may be cited as the workers' compensation security fund act. Amended by L.1980, c. 83, s. 4, eff. Aug. 21, 1980.
NJ Rev Stat § 34:15-104 (2021)
2021 New Jersey Revised Statutes|Title 34 - Labor and Workmen's Compensation|Section 34:15-104 - Definitions.

34:15-104 Definitions.  34:15-104. As used in this article, unless the context or subject matter otherwise requires: "Fund" means the workers' compensation security fund created by R.S.34:15-105.  "Fund year" means the calendar year.  "Carrier" means any stock corporation, reciprocal or association organized and operating on the mutual plan, authorized to transact the business of workers' compensation insurance in this State, except an insolvent carrier.  "Insolvent carrier" means a carrier which has been determined to be insolvent, or for which or for the assets of which a receiver has been appointed by a court or public officer of competent jurisdiction and authority.  "Covered claims" means "compensation," "benefits," "death benefits," and "payments of losses" with respect to the injury or death of workers under this chapter, R.S. 34:15-1 et seq., or the federal "Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act," 44 Stat. 1424 (33 U.S.C. s.901 et seq.), arising from coverage of risks located or resident in this State. "Compensation rate" means the rate of compensation provided by the workers' compensation act, R.S.34:15-1 et seq.  Amended 1987, c.250, s.1; 2004, c.179, s.1.