Pennsylvania Code › Title 34 - LABOR AND INDUSTRY › Part VIII - Bureau of Workers' Compensation › Chapter 121 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 121.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
				  have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise:
Act
-The Workers' Compensation Act
				  (77
				  P. S. §§
										1-1041.4 and
				  2501-2506).
Agreement
-For purposes of this chapter, an
				  agreement is limited to any of the following:
(i) Agreement for Compensation for Disability
				or Permanent Injury, Form LIBC-336.
(ii) Supplemental Agreement for Compensation
				for Disability or Permanent Injury, Form LIBC-337.
(iii) Agreement for Compensation for Death,
				Form LIBC-338.
(iv) Supplemental
				Agreement for Compensation for Death, Form LIBC-339.
Approved rating organization
-One or more
				  organizations situated within this Commonwealth, subject to supervision and to
				  examination by the Insurance Commissioner and approved by the Insurance
				  Commissioner as adequately equipped to perform the functions specified in
				  Article VII of the act (77 P. S. §§
										1035.1-1035.22) on an equitable and impartial
				  basis.
Board
-The Workers' Compensation Appeal
				  Board.
Bureau
-The Bureau of Workers' Compensation
				  of the Department.
Claimant
-An individual who files a petition
				  for, or otherwise receives, benefits under the act or the Disease Law.
Department
-The Department of Labor and
				  Industry of the Commonwealth.
Disease Law
-The Occupational Disease Act
				  (77
				  P. S. §§
										1201-1603).
Earned premium
-A direct premium earned as
				  required to be reported to the Insurance Department on Special Schedule "W,"
				  under section 655 of The Insurance Company Law of 1921 (40 P. S. §
										815). For the purposes of this chapter,
				  direct premium earned may not include:
(i) The effects of premium credits granted
				under deductible elections by insured employer.
(ii) Premiums not attributable to coverage
				under the act or the Disease Law.
(iii) Premiums attributable to excess
				policies written for specified retentions on self-insured employers.
Employer
-As defined in section 401 of the
				  act (77 P. S. §
										701),
				  including the insurer and a self-insured employer.
First report of injury
-A filing made with
				  the Bureau under section 438 of the act (77 P. S. §
										994).
Insurance carrier
-An entity or group of
				  affiliated entities subject to The Insurance Company Law of 1921 (40 P. S.
				  §§
										341-477d), including the State
				  Workers' Insurance Fund, but not including self-insured employers or runoff
				  self-insurers, with which an employer has insured its liability under section
				  305 of the act (77 P. S. §
										501).
Insured employer
-An employer which has
				  chosen to insure its workers' compensation liabilities through a workers'
				  compensation insurance carrier licensed to do so in this Commonwealth,
				  including the State Workers' Insurance Fund.
Insurer
-
(i) A workers' compensation insurance carrier
				which is licensed to insure workers' compensation liabilities in this
				Commonwealth and acts in this capacity on behalf of insured
				employers.
(ii) The term includes a
				self-insured employer and a runoff self-insurer.
Runoff self-insurer
-An employer that had
				  been a self-insurer but no longer maintains a current permit to self-insure
				  under section 305 of the act (77 P. S. §
										501).
Self-insured employer
-
(i) An employer which has been granted the
				privilege to self-insure its liability under the act.
(ii) The term includes a parent company or
				affiliate which has assumed a subsidiary's or an affiliate's liability upon the
				termination of the parent-subsidiary or affiliate relationship, and a runoff
				self-insurer.
Special funds
-Funds maintained under
				  sections 306.2, 443 and 446 of the act (77 P. S. §§
										517,
				  999 and
				  1000.2.
The provisions of this §
											121.1 amended under section 2218
					 of The Administrative Code of 1929 (71 P.S. §
												578).