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IN Code § 27-7-2-3.1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 27. Insurance|Article 7. Special Types of Insurance|Chapter 2. Worker's Compensation|27-7-2-3.1. Duties of Bureau

Sec. 3.1. The bureau, in addition to other activities not prohibited, is authorized to do the following:(1) Develop a statistical plan including class definitions.(2) Collect statistical data from members, subscribers or any other source.(3) Prepare and distribute rate data, adjusted for loss development and loss trending, in accordance with its statistical plan. Such data and adjustments shall be in sufficient detail so as to permit companies to modify such rates or minimum premiums based on their own rating methods or interpretations of underlying data.(4) Prepare and distribute manuals of rating rules and rating schedules.(5) Distribute information that is filed with the commissioner and open to public inspection.(6) Conduct research and collect statistics in order to discover, identify, and classify information relating to cause or prevention of losses.(7) Prepare and file policy forms and endorsements and consult with members, subscribers, and others relative to their use and application.(8) Collect, compile, and distribute past and current prices of individual companies if such information is made available to the general public.(9) Conduct research and collect information to determine the impact of benefit level changes on rates.(10) Prepare and distribute rules and rating values for the experience rating plan. Calculate and disseminate individual risk premium modification.(11) Assist an individual company to develop minimum premiums, rates, supplementary rate information, or supporting information when so authorized by the individual company.As added by P.L.249-1989, SEC.4.
IN Code § 27-7-2-4 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 27. Insurance|Article 7. Special Types of Insurance|Chapter 2. Worker's Compensation|27-7-2-4. Rate Filings; Notice

Sec. 4. (a) The bureau shall file not less than once each calendar year recommended minimum premiums and rates for worker's compensation insurance subject to the approval of the commissioner.(b) There shall accompany each filing adequate proof that notice of the filing has been mailed, by first class United States mail, to each interested person at the person's address as shown on the records of the department.Formerly: Acts 1935, c.323, s.4; Acts 1959, c.231, s.3. As amended by P.L.28-1988, SEC.89; P.L.249-1989, SEC.5.
IN Code § 27-7-2-4.5 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 27. Insurance|Article 7. Special Types of Insurance|Chapter 2. Worker's Compensation|27-7-2-4.5. Premium or Rate Discount for Municipal Corporations or Volunteer Fire Departments

Sec. 4.5. The bureau may recommend a premium or rate discount for a municipal corporation purchasing or procuring worker's compensation insurance under IC 22-3-2-2(c) or a volunteer fire department purchasing worker's compensation insurance under IC 36-8-12-10 that has implemented the best practices established under IC 36-8-10.5-11.As added by P.L.72-2020, SEC.1.
IN Code § 27-7-2-5 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 27. Insurance|Article 7. Special Types of Insurance|Chapter 2. Worker's Compensation|27-7-2-5. Management of Bureau

Sec. 5. The management of said bureau shall be in the hands of duly elected officers or committees provided for in the bylaws of said bureau; each member of the bureau or member group with affiliate or subsidiary companies shall be entitled to only one (1) vote on any subject coming before the bureau for determination.Formerly: Acts 1935, c.323, s.5. As amended by P.L.116-1994, SEC.55.
IN Code § 27-7-2-6 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 27. Insurance|Article 7. Special Types of Insurance|Chapter 2. Worker's Compensation|27-7-2-6. By-Laws of Bureau

Sec. 6. The bureau shall make by-laws for its government and for the government of its members. Such by-laws and amendments thereto shall be filed with and approved by the insurance commissioner before they shall be effective.Formerly: Acts 1935, c.323, s.6.
IN Code § 27-7-2-7 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 27. Insurance|Article 7. Special Types of Insurance|Chapter 2. Worker's Compensation|27-7-2-7. Resolution of Tie Votes

Sec. 7. In case of a tie vote in any committee or governing body of said bureau, the insurance commissioner shall decide the matter.Formerly: Acts 1935, c.323, s.7. As amended by P.L.204-2018, SEC.15.
IN Code § 27-7-2-8 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 27. Insurance|Article 7. Special Types of Insurance|Chapter 2. Worker's Compensation|27-7-2-8. Membership in Bureau

Sec. 8. The bureau shall admit to membership every company lawfully engaged in whole or in part in writing worker's compensation insurance in Indiana.Formerly: Acts 1935, c.323, s.8. As amended by P.L.28-1988, SEC.90.
IN Code § 27-7-2-9 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 27. Insurance|Article 7. Special Types of Insurance|Chapter 2. Worker's Compensation|27-7-2-9. Charges and Expenses of Bureau; Apportionment; Review

Sec. 9. The charges and expenses incident to the establishment and operation of the bureau shall be borne equitably and without discrimination among the members of the bureau. If any member is aggrieved by an apportionment of the cost or costs made by the bureau or by failure of the bureau to make such equitable apportionment, it may in writing petition the commissioner for a review of such apportionment or failure to act. The commissioner shall upon not less than five (5) days' notice to each member hold a hearing upon such petition at which time all members shall be entitled to be heard. And said commissioner shall determine the matter or matters and mail a copy of his decision to each member of the bureau. The decision of the commissioner shall be final.Formerly: Acts 1935, c.323, s.9.
IN Code § 27-7-2-11 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 27. Insurance|Article 7. Special Types of Insurance|Chapter 2. Worker's Compensation|27-7-2-11. Approval of Classifications, Premiums, or Rates; Consultations With Worker's Compensation Board; Duty of Board to Furnish Information

Sec. 11. (a) In approving classifications, premiums, or rates, the department may in all cases consult with the worker's compensation board or member thereof. The department may also consult with the worker's compensation board or members thereof on any other matter arising under this chapter.(b) The worker's compensation board shall furnish the department all available information at its disposal and permit the department to have access to all records of the worker's compensation board which the department may wish to consult in the performance of its duties under this chapter.Formerly: Acts 1935, c.323, s.11. As amended by P.L.252-1985, SEC.231; P.L.28-1988, SEC.92; P.L.249-1989, SEC.6.
IN Code § 27-7-2-12 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 27. Insurance|Article 7. Special Types of Insurance|Chapter 2. Worker's Compensation|27-7-2-12. Representative of Department; Appointment; Powers and Duties

Sec. 12. The department may authorize any person to attend meetings of the rating bureau, hold hearings, make investigations, and make examinations with reference to any subject over which it has jurisdiction under this chapter. The person so appointed shall have all the powers of the department in relation to said hearings, investigations, or examinations, and shall report in writing to the department the results of such hearings, examinations, or investigations, and any testimony taken by him.Formerly: Acts 1935, c.323, s.12. As amended by P.L.252-1985, SEC.232.
IN Code § 27-7-2-15 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 27. Insurance|Article 7. Special Types of Insurance|Chapter 2. Worker's Compensation|27-7-2-15. Approval of System of Schedule Rating

Sec. 15. The department shall after consultation with members of the bureau and after investigation approve a system of schedule rating for use in this state. Only the system filed by the bureau and approved by the department may be used in Indiana.Formerly: Acts 1935, c.323, s.15. As amended by P.L.249-1989, SEC.7.
IN Code § 27-7-2-18 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 27. Insurance|Article 7. Special Types of Insurance|Chapter 2. Worker's Compensation|27-7-2-18. Exclusion of Physical Impairment of Employees in Rate Making

Sec. 18. The physical impairment of employees shall not be taken into account in establishing rates or system of schedule or merit rating.Formerly: Acts 1935, c.323, s.18.
IN Code § 27-7-2-20 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 27. Insurance|Article 7. Special Types of Insurance|Chapter 2. Worker's Compensation|27-7-2-20. Adherence to Approved Rules, Forms, Plans, and Systems; Annual Reports

Sec. 20. (a) Every company shall adhere to manual rules, policy forms, a statistical plan, a classification system, and experience rating plan filed by the bureau and approved by the commissioner.(b) The commissioner shall designate the bureau to assist in gathering, compiling, and reporting relevant statistical information. Every company shall record and report its worker's compensation experience to the bureau according to the statistical plan approved by the commissioner. The report shall include any deviation from the filed recommended minimum premiums and rates, in total and by classification. The bureau shall annually submit data concerning these deviations to the department. Upon receipt, the department shall evaluate the data and prepare a report concerning the effect of competitive rating in Indiana. The department shall make the report available not later than October 31 of each year.(c) Every company shall adhere to the approved manual rules, policy forms, statistical plan, classification system, and experience rating plan in the recording and reporting of data to the bureau.(d) Copies of all approved classifications, rules, and forms shall be provided to the worker's compensation board.Formerly: Acts 1935, c.323, s.20. As amended by P.L.28-1988, SEC.95; P.L.249-1989, SEC.8; P.L.91-1998, SEC.8.
IN Code § 27-7-2-20.1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 27. Insurance|Article 7. Special Types of Insurance|Chapter 2. Worker's Compensation|27-7-2-20.1. Minimum Premiums and Rates

Sec. 20.1. Minimum premiums and rates may not be excessive, inadequate, or unfairly discriminatory.As added by P.L.249-1989, SEC.9.
IN Code § 27-7-2-20.2 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 27. Insurance|Article 7. Special Types of Insurance|Chapter 2. Worker's Compensation|27-7-2-20.2. Minimum Premiums, Rates, and Supplementary Rate Information; Filing; Approval; Proof of Notice; Public Inspection

Sec. 20.2. (a) Every company and the bureau shall file with the commissioner all minimum premiums, rates, and supplementary rate information that are to be used in Indiana. Such minimum premiums, rates, and supplementary rate information must be submitted to the commissioner at least thirty (30) days before the effective date. The commissioner shall disapprove a filing that does not meet the requirements of section 20.1 of this chapter. A filing shall be deemed approved unless disapproved by the commissioner within thirty (30) days after the filing is made. A company may adopt by reference, with or without deviation, the minimum premiums, rates, and supplementary rate information filed by another company or by the bureau.(b) Minimum premiums, rates, and supplementary information filed under this section shall be filed in the form and manner prescribed by the commissioner.(c) There shall accompany each filing adequate proof that notice of the filing has been mailed, by first class United States mail, to each interested person at the person's address as shown on the records of the department.(d) All material filed by the bureau or any company as part of any official rate filing shall, as soon as filed, be open to the public for inspection and copying under IC 5-14-3. This requirement is not applicable to information and data transmitted to the department or the worker's compensation board, or to both, under section 20 or 40 of this chapter.As added by P.L.249-1989, SEC.10. Amended by P.L.275-2013, SEC.19.
IN Code § 27-7-2-20.4 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 27. Insurance|Article 7. Special Types of Insurance|Chapter 2. Worker's Compensation|27-7-2-20.4. Arrangements in Restraint of Trade; Presumption; Subsidiary Companies

Sec. 20.4. (a) A company or the bureau may not make any arrangement with any other company or other person that has the purpose or effect of restraining trade unreasonably or of substantially lessening competition in the business of insurance.(b) A company may not agree with any other company or the bureau to adhere to or use any rate, rating plan (other than the experience rating plan), or rating rule except as needed to comply with the requirements of section 20 of this chapter.(c) The fact that two (2) or more companies use consistently or intermittently the same rules, rating plans, rating schedules, rating rules, policy forms, rate classifications, underwriting rules, surveys, or inspections or similar materials is not sufficient in itself to support a finding that an agreement prohibited by subsection (b) exists.(d) Two (2) or more companies having a common ownership or operating in Indiana under common management or control may act in concert between or among themselves with respect to any matters pertaining to those authorized in this chapter as if they constituted a single company.As added by P.L.249-1989, SEC.12.
IN Code § 27-7-2-24 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 27. Insurance|Article 7. Special Types of Insurance|Chapter 2. Worker's Compensation|27-7-2-24. Appointment of Resident Agent for Service of Process

Sec. 24. Every person lawfully engaged wholly or in part in writing worker's compensation insurance in this state shall, upon July 1, 1935, by written notice to the insurance commissioner, appoint an individual resident of Indiana, a corporate resident of Indiana, or an authorized Indiana insurer as the person's resident agent in Indiana upon whom service of process may be had for the enforcement of this chapter.Formerly: Acts 1935, c.323, s.24. As amended by P.L.252-1985, SEC.235; P.L.28-1988, SEC.98; P.L.268-1999, SEC.17.
IN Code § 27-7-2-25 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 27. Insurance|Article 7. Special Types of Insurance|Chapter 2. Worker's Compensation|27-7-2-25. Annual License of Rating Bureau

Sec. 25. The bureau shall procure annually from the department a license to carry on its business for which license a fee of one hundred dollars ($100) shall be paid to the state of Indiana through the insurance department of this state. The license year shall terminate on the thirtieth day of April of each year.Formerly: Acts 1935, c.323, s.25.
IN Code § 27-7-2-27 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 27. Insurance|Article 7. Special Types of Insurance|Chapter 2. Worker's Compensation|27-7-2-27. Jurisdiction of Courts of Marion County; Review

Sec. 27. (a) The courts of Marion County, Indiana, shall have jurisdiction in all matters arising under this chapter except such rulings by the department as are made final by this chapter.(b) Any order or decision of the commissioner made under this chapter is subject to review in the circuit or superior court of Marion County by any party in interest. An appeal must be taken within thirty (30) days after the date of the order or decision of the commissioner. The court shall determine whether the filing of the petition for review shall operate as a stay of the order or decision of the commissioner. The court may, in disposing of the issue before it, affirm or set aside the order or decision of the commissioner. If the order or decision of the commissioner is affirmed, the court shall make its own order and judgment commanding obedience to the order or decision of the commissioner. An appeal may be taken to the supreme court as in civil actions from any order or judgment of the circuit or superior court made under this section.Formerly: Acts 1935, c.323, s.27. As amended by P.L.252-1985, SEC.237; P.L.249-1989, SEC.13.
IN Code § 27-7-2-28 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 27. Insurance|Article 7. Special Types of Insurance|Chapter 2. Worker's Compensation|27-7-2-28. Duty to Insure and Accept Certain Rejected Risks

Sec. 28. From and after July 1, 1935, all insurance companies authorized to effect worker's compensation insurance in this state, and being members of the worker's compensation rating bureau of Indiana, shall insure and accept any worker's compensation risk tendered to and rejected in writing by any three (3) members of the bureau in the manner provided in this chapter.Formerly: Acts 1935, c.323, s.28. As amended by P.L.252-1985, SEC.238; P.L.28-1988, SEC.100.
IN Code § 27-7-2-28.1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 27. Insurance|Article 7. Special Types of Insurance|Chapter 2. Worker's Compensation|27-7-2-28.1. Assigned Risk Plan; Administration; Filing; Approval; Modification or Elimination by General Assembly

Sec. 28.1. (a) The assigned risk plan is established.(b) The bureau shall administer the assigned risk plan with the commissioner's approval.(c) All companies authorized to write worker's compensation insurance shall participate in the assigned risk plan providing for the equitable apportionment among them of insurance that may be afforded to applicants who are in good faith entitled to but who are unable to procure such insurance through ordinary methods. The bureau shall file, at least thirty (30) days before their effective date, the plan of operation, rates, rating plans, rules, policy forms, and any future modifications thereof, with the commissioner for approval. Such rates shall reflect experience in the assigned risk plan to the extent it is actuarially appropriate. The rates must reflect the varied categories of rejected risks covered by the assigned risk plan and must include at least two (2) rating plans, one (1) of which may not exceed the recommended minimum premiums and rates filed by the bureau under section 4 of this chapter.(d) The commissioner shall disapprove any filing that does not meet the requirements of section 20.1 of this chapter. A filing shall be deemed to meet such requirements unless disapproved by the commissioner within thirty (30) days after the filing is made. In disapproving a filing made under this section, the commissioner shall have the same authority and follow the same procedure as in disapproving a filing under section 20.3 of this chapter.(e) The assigned risk plan may be substantially modified or eliminated only as the general assembly provides by statute.As added by P.L.249-1989, SEC.14. Amended by P.L.204-2018, SEC.16.
IN Code § 27-7-2-28.2 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 27. Insurance|Article 7. Special Types of Insurance|Chapter 2. Worker's Compensation|27-7-2-28.2. Examination of Records; Costs

Sec. 28.2. (a) The commissioner may examine any company, the bureau, or the assigned risk plan as the commissioner considers necessary to ascertain compliance with this chapter.(b) Every company, the bureau, and the assigned risk plan shall maintain reasonable records of the type and kind reasonably adapted to its method of operation containing its experiences or the experience of its staff members including the data, statistics, or information collected or used by it in its activities. These records shall be available at all reasonable times to enable the commissioner to determine whether the activities of the bureau, company, and the assigned risk plan comply with this chapter. Such records shall be maintained in an office within Indiana or shall be made available to the commissioner for examination or inspection at any time upon reasonable notice.(c) The reasonable cost of an examination made under this section shall be paid by the examined party upon presentation of a detailed account of such costs.(d) Instead of an examination the commissioner may accept the report of an examination by the insurance supervisory official of another state, made under the laws of that state.As added by P.L.249-1989, SEC.15.
IN Code § 27-7-2-29 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 27. Insurance|Article 7. Special Types of Insurance|Chapter 2. Worker's Compensation|27-7-2-29. Rejected Risks; Designation of Insurer; Reinsurance

Sec. 29. (a) When any such rejected risk is called to the attention of the worker's compensation board and it appearing to the board that said risk is in good faith entitled to coverage, said bureau upon the order of the board shall fix the initial premium for the coverage.(b) Upon payment, of the premium fixed under subsection (a), the bureau shall designate a member of said bureau whose duty it shall be to issue a policy containing the usual and customary provisions found in such policies therefor. However, for this undertaking all members of said bureau shall be reinsurers as among themselves in the amount which the compensation insurance written in this state during the preceding calendar year by such member bears to the total compensation insurance written in this state during the preceding year by all members of said bureau.Formerly: Acts 1935, c.323, s.29. As amended by P.L.28-1988, SEC.101.
IN Code § 27-7-2-30 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 27. Insurance|Article 7. Special Types of Insurance|Chapter 2. Worker's Compensation|27-7-2-30. Rules; Adoption

Sec. 30. The bureau shall, by July 31, 1935, make and adopt such rules as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter, subject to the approval of the insurance commissioner.Formerly: Acts 1935, c.323, s.30. As amended by P.L.252-1985, SEC.239.
IN Code § 27-7-2-31 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 27. Insurance|Article 7. Special Types of Insurance|Chapter 2. Worker's Compensation|27-7-2-31. Loss of Coverage for Nonpayment of Premiums; Report of Conditions Precluding Insurance; Coverage Pending Decision

Sec. 31. No employer who does not pay the advance premiums or premium when due, shall be entitled to insurance, nor shall any coverage be extended until all obligations to pay worker's compensation insurance premiums contracted during the previous twelve (12) months have been paid. If, in the opinion of the designated carrying company or the bureau, physical or moral conditions exist in any risk which shall preclude the risk from obtaining insurance, that risk shall be reported to the worker's compensation board and to the department. The bureau shall, in those cases, furnish the board and the department with its recommendations for improving safety conditions, which, if complied with, would entitle the risk to insurance. Pending a decision by the board or the department, insurance shall be effective as otherwise provided in this chapter. However, the board, or the department, or both shall make that decision within sixty (60) days after such recommendations are furnished by the bureau.Formerly: Acts 1935, c.323, s.31. As amended by P.L.252-1985, SEC.240; P.L.28-1988, SEC.102.
IN Code § 27-7-2-32 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 27. Insurance|Article 7. Special Types of Insurance|Chapter 2. Worker's Compensation|27-7-2-32. Considerations in Designating Insurer to Assume Rejected Risk; Review of Reasons

Sec. 32. In designating the bureau member to insure a rejected risk, the bureau shall have due regard for the service facilities and compensation premium volume in Indiana of the member so designated as the carrying company. Any grievance on the part of such bureau member with the respect of such designation shall be brought to the attention of the bureau for review and such action as the circumstances may justify.Formerly: Acts 1935, c.323, s.32.