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8A.457 WORKERS' COMPENSATION CLAIMS.
The director shall employ appropriate staff to handle and adjust
claims of state employees for workers' compensation benefits pursuant
to chapters 85, 85A, 85B, and 86, or with the approval of the
executive council contract for the services or purchase workers'
compensation insurance coverage for state employees or selected
groups of state employees. A state employee workers' compensation
fund is created in the state treasury under the control of the
department to pay state employee workers' compensation claims and
administrative costs. The department shall establish a rating
formula and assess premiums to all agencies, departments, and
divisions of the state including those which have not received an
appropriation for the payment of workers' compensation insurance and
which operate from moneys other than from the general fund of the
state. The department shall collect the premiums and deposit them
into the state employee workers' compensation fund. Notwithstanding
section 8.33, moneys deposited in the state employee workers'
compensation fund shall not revert to the general fund of the state
at the end of any fiscal year, but shall remain in the state employee
workers' compensation fund and be continuously available to pay state
employee workers' compensation claims. The director may, to the
extent practicable, contract with a private organization to handle
the processing and payment of claims and services rendered under the
provisions of this section. Section History: Recent Form
2003 Acts, ch 145, §82
