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85 OK Stat § 85-375.4 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 85. Workers' Compensation|§85-375.4. Board of Directors.

|A. CompSource Mutual Insurance Company shall be governed by a Board of Directors composed of ten (10) members, all of whom shall be citizens of the state. The Board of Directors shall be composed of: |1. The Lieutenant Governor or a designee;2. The State Auditor and Inspector or a designee;3. One member appointed by the Governor;4. One member appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives;5. One member appointed by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate;6. Four members shall be elected by the Company's policyholders. Such members shall not be from state agencies, but should come from the private business sector; and7. The Chief Executive Officer of the Company shall be an ex officio, nonvoting member.B. Other than the Chief Executive Officer of the Company, the Lieutenant Governor or a designee, and the State Auditor and Inspector or a designee, the members of the Board of Directors shall serve staggered six-year terms expiring July 1. An appointed or elected Director whose term has expired shall continue to serve until the Director's replacement is elected by the policyholders or appointed by the appointing authority, or until such time as the Director is reelected or reappointed, as applicable. If the Lieutenant Governor or State Auditor and Inspector selects a designee, that designee shall continue to serve until the Lieutenant Governor or State Auditor and Inspector replaces the designee or assumes the position on the Company's Board of Directors.C. If an appointed Director's position becomes vacant, the officer who appointed the outgoing Director in subsection A of this section shall appoint a new Director to the Board. A vacancy in the elected Directors shall be filled as provided by the Company's bylaws. If a vacancy occurs before the date on which the vacating Director's term is set to expire, the successor Director shall be elected or appointed for a term to expire on the same date as the vacating Director's term.Added by Laws 2013, c. 254, § 4.
85 OK Stat § 85-375.5 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 85. Workers' Compensation|§85-375.5. Election of Directors.

|A. The members of the Board of Managers of CompSource Oklahoma who are serving on the effective date of this act shall serve as the initial Board of Directors of CompSource Mutual Insurance Company. The terms of the initial Board members shall be extended from January 1, 2015, to July 1, 2015. |B. The Lieutenant Governor or a designee, State Auditor and Inspector or a designee, one member appointed by the Governor, one member appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and one member appointed by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate shall continue to serve on the Board of Directors of CompSource Mutual Insurance Company as provided in subsection D of this section. The other initial Board positions shall be converted to elected positions as provided in subsection C of this section.C. On or before July 1, 2015, the Company shall hold its first meeting of the policyholders. At that meeting the policyholders shall elect four Directors. The method of election shall be specified in the Company's bylaws.D. The initial terms of the Board of Directors of CompSource Mutual Insurance Company shall be as follows:1. The terms of the Board member appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the fourth member elected pursuant to subsection C of this section shall expire on July 1, 2018;2. The terms of the Board member appointed by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate and the third member elected pursuant to subsection C of this section shall expire on July 1, 2020; and3. The terms of the Board member appointed by the Governor and the first and second member elected pursuant to subsection C of this section shall expire on July 1, 2022.After such initial terms, the terms of the Board members shall be as provided in Section 4 of this act.E. The bylaws and Board policies of CompSource Oklahoma on the effective date of this act become the bylaws and Board policies of the Company until amended or revised by the Company's Board.Added by Laws 2013, c. 254, § 5.
85 OK Stat § 85-375.6 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 85. Workers' Compensation|§85-375.6. Board of Directors - Duties.

|The Board of Directors of CompSource Mutual Insurance Company shall have supervision over the administration and operation of the Company. In this regard, the Board shall function in all aspects as a governing body of a domestic mutual insurance company. The Board shall: |1. Employ a Chief Executive Officer who is vested with full power, authority and jurisdiction over the Company. The Chief Executive Officer shall perform any duties which are necessary or convenient in the exercise of any power, authority, or jurisdiction over the Company;2. Provide for the delivery in this state of workers' compensation insurance and for the transaction of workers' compensation insurance business to the same extent as any other insurance carrier transacting workers' compensation insurance business in this state; and3. Establish a compensation committee to determine appropriate compensation for the Chief Executive Officer and Directors of CompSource Mutual Insurance Company, provided that compensation for any Director who is a state officer does not conflict with Oklahoma law.Added by Laws 2013, c. 254, § 6.
85 OK Stat § 85-375.7 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 85. Workers' Compensation|§85-375.7. Actuarially sound rates.

|A. 1. The Board of Directors of CompSource Mutual Insurance Company shall have full power and authority to set actuarially sound rates to be charged by the Company for insurance until three (3) years after the Company begins operating pursuant to subsection A of Section 3 of this act. |2. The Board shall engage the services of an independent actuary who is a member of the Casualty Actuarial Society or the American Academy of Actuaries who is qualified as described in the U.S. Qualifications Standards promulgated by the American Academy of Actuaries pursuant to the Code of Professional Conduct to develop and recommend actuarially sound rates.3. Rates shall be set in amounts sufficient, when invested, to:a.carry all claims to maturity,b.meet the reasonable expenses of conducting the business of the Company, andc.maintain a reasonable surplus.B. Three (3) years after the Company begins operating pursuant to subsection A of Section 3 of this act, the Company shall become subject to Articles 9, 9A and 9B of Title 36 of the Oklahoma Statutes.Added by Laws 2013, c. 254, § 7.
85 OK Stat § 85-375.8 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 85. Workers' Compensation|§85-375.8. Personal liability.

|Neither a member of the Board of Directors of CompSource Mutual Insurance Company nor the Chief Executive Officer or any officer or employee of the Company shall be personally liable in the person's private capacity for any act performed or for any contract or other obligation entered into or undertaken in an official capacity in good faith and without intent to defraud, including, but not limited to, the identification and referral of a person for investigation and prosecution for a possible administrative violation or criminal offense. |Added by Laws 2013, c. 254, § 8.
85 OK Stat § 85-375.9 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 85. Workers' Compensation|§85-375.9. Reserves – Power and authority.

|A. The Company shall establish and maintain reserves for losses on an actuarially sound basis in accordance with requirements as provided in Title 36 of the Oklahoma Statutes. |B. Pursuant to Section 2123 of Title 36 of the Oklahoma Statutes and in accordance with criteria approved by the Board, which may consider the policyholder's safety record and performance, the Company may pay cash dividends or allow a credit on renewal premium for policyholders insured with the Company.C. The Company shall have full power and authority:1. To enter into contracts of insurance insuring persons, firms and corporations against loss, expense or liability by reason of bodily injury, death or accident, occupational disability, or occupational disease suffered by employees for which the insured may be liable or have assumed liability, including, but not limited to, contracts of insurance or reinsurance for the purpose of insuring employers operating in this state and their employees who may work outside this state;2. To purchase reinsurance for any risk or any portion of any risk of the Company. The purchase of reinsurance may be made through intermediaries;3. To establish a multitiered premium or rating system to provide workers' compensation insurance policies to insureds in the state, which may allow premium adjustments based upon the Company's evaluation of the underwriting characteristics on the individual risk and the appropriate premium to be charged for the policy coverages; and4. To establish subsidiaries to provide the same coverages allowed in subsections B and C of Section 3 of this act.D. The Company may decline to insure any risk in which the minimum requirements of the law with regard to construction, equipment and operation are not observed, or which is beyond the safe carrying of the Company, but as an I.R.C. Section 501(c)(27)(B) organization shall not have power or authority, except as otherwise provided in this act, to refuse to insure any compensation risk tendered with the premium therefor.E. In addition to other rights of the Company under this act, the Company has the legal rights of a mutual insurance company operating under Title 36 of the Oklahoma Statutes, and of a private person in this state, and has the power to sue and be sued in its own name. No procedure is a prerequisite to the exercise of the power by the Company to sue.Added by Laws 2013, c. 254, § 9.
85 OK Stat § 85-375.10 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 85. Workers' Compensation|§85-375.10. Taxes - Oklahoma Property and Casualty Insurance Guaranty Association.

|A. CompSource Mutual Insurance Company shall be subject to premium taxes in the same manner as a domestic mutual insurance company authorized by the Insurance Department to write workers' compensation insurance in this state as provided in the Oklahoma Statutes. |B. The Company shall be a member of and shall be protected by the Oklahoma Property and Casualty Insurance Guaranty Association.C. Notwithstanding subsection B of this section, the Oklahoma Property and Casualty Insurance Guaranty Association, with respect to an insolvency of the Company, is liable only for a claim with a date of injury occurring on or after January 1, 2015.Added by Laws 2013, c. 254, § 10.
85 OK Stat § 85-375.11 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 85. Workers' Compensation|§85-375.11. Required financial reports.

|A. The Company shall file with the Workers' Compensation Court and the Insurance Department all financial reports required of other workers' compensation insurers. |B. Any report the Company is required to file with any authority shall be in conformity with statutory accounting practices prescribed, or otherwise permitted, by the Insurance Department.Added by Laws 2013, c. 254, § 11.
85 OK Stat § 85-375.12 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 85. Workers' Compensation|§85-375.12. Revenues, monies and assets – Rights, privileges, powers and authority of mutual insurance companies.

|A. All revenues, monies, and assets of CompSource Mutual Insurance Company belong solely to the Company and shall be governed by the laws applicable to domestic mutual insurance companies. The state covenants with the policyholders of the Company, persons receiving workers' compensation benefits, and the Company's creditors that the state will not borrow, appropriate, or direct payments from those revenues, monies, or assets for any purpose. The state has no liability or responsibility to the policyholders, persons receiving workers' compensation benefits, or the creditors of the Company if the Company is placed in conservatorship or receivership, or becomes insolvent. |B. CompSource Mutual Insurance Company may exercise all the rights, privileges, powers, and authority of any other mutual insurance company organized to transact workers' compensation insurance business in this state, subject to the requirements of Title 36 of the Oklahoma Statutes. Effective January 1, 2015:1. The Company shall be considered to be a continuation of CompSource Oklahoma as it existed prior to this act; and2. As a continuation of CompSource Oklahoma, the Company is vested with all property, tangible and intangible, real and personal, of CompSource Oklahoma and control of the CompSource Oklahoma fund.C. Effective January 1, 2015:1. CompSource Mutual Insurance Company may enforce all contract and statutory rights of CompSource Oklahoma;2. Each debt, claim, and cause of action of CompSource Oklahoma, and each property right, privilege, franchise, or other interest of CompSource Oklahoma, is the property of CompSource Mutual Insurance Company;3. The rights of all policyholders and creditors and the standing of all claims under CompSource Oklahoma are preserved unimpaired under CompSource Mutual Insurance Company; and4. Each debt, liability, and duty of CompSource Oklahoma is a debt, liability, or duty of CompSource Mutual Insurance Company and may be enforced against CompSource Mutual Insurance Company.D. A cause of action or similar proceeding to which CompSource Oklahoma was a party pending on January 1, 2015:1. Is not affected by this act;2. May be continued to be prosecuted by or against the Company; and3. Continues to be governed by and conducted under the requirements of the Oklahoma Statutes, as those requirements existed before the effective date of this act, and the applicable bylaws, rules, and regulations of CompSource Oklahoma.E. The rates established by the Board of Directors of the Company, or formerly established by the Board of Managers of CompSource Oklahoma and in effect on the effective date of this act for CompSource Oklahoma shall be the initial rates for CompSource Mutual Insurance Company.Added by Laws 2013, c. 254, § 12.
85 OK Stat § 85-375.13 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 85. Workers' Compensation|§85-375.13. Severability.

|If any section of the provisions of this act be decided by the courts to be unconstitutional or invalid, the same shall not affect the validity of this act as a whole, or any part thereof other than the part so decided to be unconstitutional or invalid. |Added by Laws 2013, c. 254, § 13.
85 OK Stat § 85-396 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 85. Workers' Compensation|§85-396. Information not open to public inspection - Disclosure as misdemeanor.

|Information acquired by the CompSource Oklahoma President and Chief Executive Officer or the officers or employees of CompSource Oklahoma, from persons, firms or corporations insured by CompSource Oklahoma, or from employees of such persons, firms or corporations pursuant to this article shall not be open to public inspection, and any officer or employee of the State of Oklahoma, who without authority of the Commissioner, or pursuant to the rules prescribed by the CompSource Oklahoma President and Chief Executive Officer, or as otherwise required by law, shall disclose the same, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. |Added by Laws 1933, c. 28, p. 64, § 1 (§ 17), eff. July 1, 1933. Amended by Laws 1937, p. 491, § 15, emerg. eff. May 14, 1937; Laws 1988, c. 317, § 5, eff. Nov. 1, 1988; Laws 2002, c. 50, § 19, eff. Nov. 1, 2002. Renumbered from § 147 of this title by Laws 2011, c. 318, § 88. Amended by Laws 2013, c. 254, § 46.
85 OK Stat § 85-398 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 85. Workers' Compensation|§85-398. Group self-insurers.

|A. The Workers' Compensation Court shall adopt rules permitting two or more employers not otherwise subject to the provisions of Section 2b of this title to pool together liabilities under this act for the purpose of qualifying as a group self-insurer and each such employer shall be classified as a self-insurer. |B. The Court shall approve the distribution of all undistributed policyholders' surplus of a Workers' Compensation Self-Insurance Program if the Program complies with the following criteria:1. Has been in business for at least five (5) years;2. Has its financial statements audited by a public accounting firm which audits at least one corporate client which has assets in excess of One Billion Dollars ($1,000,000,000.00) and on which the accounting firm has issued an unqualified opinion as to the fair presentation of the financial position of the Program showing adequate solvency and reserves; and3. Is in compliance with the provisions of this title and all other regulations as required by the Court.C. A group self-insurer created pursuant to this section either prior to or after the effective date of this act shall not be subject to the provisions of the Oklahoma Securities Act.Added by Laws 1981, c. 256, § 3, emerg. eff. June 25, 1981. Amended by Laws 1990, c. 264, § 123, operative July 1, 1990; Laws 1990, c. 260, § 58, operative July 1, 1990; Laws 1996, c. 363, § 12, eff. Nov. 1, 1996. Renumbered from Title 85, § 149.1 by Laws 2011, c. 318, § 88.
85 OK Stat § 85-399 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 85. Workers' Compensation|§85-399. Self-insurance associations - Pooling of liabilities.

|The Workers' Compensation Court shall adopt rules permitting two or more group self-insurance associations to pool their liabilities under this act for the purpose of providing such group self-insurance associations specific and aggregate excess insurance. |Added by Laws 1986, c. 222, § 30, eff. Nov. 1, 1986. Renumbered from Title 85, § 149.2 by Laws 2011, c. 318, § 88.
85A OK Stat § 85A-1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 85A. Administrative Workers' Compensation System|§85A-1. Short title - Administrative Workers' Compensation Act.

|Sections 1 through 106 and 150 through 168 of this act shall be known and may be cited as the "Administrative Workers' Compensation Act". The provisions of the Administrative Workers' Compensation Act shall be strictly construed. |Added by Laws 2013, c. 208, § 1.
85A OK Stat § 85A-3 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 85A. Administrative Workers' Compensation System|§85A-3. Applicability of act.

|A. Every employer and every employee, unless otherwise specifically provided in this act, shall be subject and bound to the provisions of the Administrative Workers' Compensation Act and every employer shall pay or provide benefits according to the provisions of this act for the accidental injury or death of an employee arising out of and in the course of his or her employment, without regard to fault for such injury, if the employee's contract of employment was made or if the injury occurred within this state. If an employee makes a claim for an injury in another jurisdiction, the employee is precluded from his or her right of action under the Administrative Workers' Compensation Act unless the Workers' Compensation Commission determines that there is a change in circumstances that creates a good cause to bring the claim under the Administrative Workers' Compensation Act; provided, however, that the employee may not receive duplicate benefits to those received in the foreign jurisdiction and the employee's right to bring a claim under this act shall be subject to the limitations period for bringing a claim pursuant to paragraph 1 of subsection A of Section 69 of this title. Nothing in this act shall be construed to conflict with any valid Act of Congress governing the liability of employers for injuries received by their employees. |B. The State of Oklahoma accepts the provisions of the Acts of Congress designated as 40 U.S.C., Section 3172, formerly 40 U.S.C., Section 290, and hereby extends the territorial jurisdiction of the Administrative Workers' Compensation Act of this state to all lands and premises within the exterior boundaries of this state which the Government of the United States of America owns or holds by deed or act of cession, and to all purchases, projects, buildings, constructions, improvements and property within the exterior boundaries of this state belonging to the Government of the United States of America, in the same manner and to the same extent as if the premises were under the exclusive jurisdiction of this state, subject only to the limitations placed thereon by the Acts of Congress.C. The Administrative Workers' Compensation Act shall apply only to claims for injuries and death based on accidents which occur on or after February 1, 2014.D. The Workers' Compensation Code in effect before February 1, 2014, shall govern all rights in respect to claims for injuries and death based on accidents occurring before February 1, 2014.Added by Laws 2013, c. 208, § 3, eff. Feb. 1, 2014. Amended by Laws 2019, c. 476, § 2, emerg. eff. May 28, 2019.
85A OK Stat § 85A-4 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 85A. Administrative Workers' Compensation System|§85A-4. Severability.

|A. If any part of this act be decided by the courts to be unconstitutional or invalid, the same shall not affect the validity of this act as a whole, or any part thereof other than the part so decided to be unconstitutional or invalid. |B. If the adjudication of unconstitutionality has the effect of invalidating any payment of compensation under this act, the amount of any compensation paid under this act on account of the injury shall be deducted from the amount of damages awarded in the action in respect to the injury.Added by Laws 2013, c. 208, § 4, eff. Feb. 1, 2014.
85A OK Stat § 85A-7 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 85A. Administrative Workers' Compensation System|§85A-7. Discrimination or retaliation.

|A. An employer may not retaliate against an employee when the employee has in good faith: |1. Filed a claim under this act;2. Retained a lawyer for representation regarding a claim under this act;3. Instituted or caused to be instituted any proceeding under the provisions of this act; or4. Testified or is about to testify in any proceeding under the provisions of this act.B. The district courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction to hear and decide claims based on this section.C. An employer which violates any provision of this section shall be liable in a district court action for reasonable damages, actual and punitive if applicable, suffered by an employee as a result of the violation. Exemplary or punitive damage awards made pursuant to this section shall not exceed One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00). The employee shall have the burden of proof by a preponderance of the evidence.D. The prevailing party shall be entitled to recover costs and a reasonable attorney fee.E. No employer may discharge an employee during a period of temporary total disability for the sole reason of being absent from work or for the purpose of avoiding payment of temporary total disability benefits to the injured employee.F. Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, an employer shall not be required to rehire or retain an employee who, after temporary total disability has been exhausted, is determined by a physician to be physically unable to perform his or her assigned duties, or whose position is no longer available.G. This section shall not be construed as establishing an exception to the employment-at-will doctrine.H. The remedies provided for in this section shall be exclusive with respect to any claim arising out of the conduct described in subsection A of this section.Added by Laws 2013, c. 208, § 7, eff. Feb. 1, 2014. Amended by Laws 2019, c. 476, § 5, emerg. eff. May 28, 2019.