KRS 393.063: Treatment of refunds of workers' compensation special fund assessments

held by an insurance carrier and owed to an insured employer.

(1) Notwithstanding any provision of the Kentucky Revised Statutes to the contrary,

refunds of workers' compensation s pecial fund assessments levied in accordance

with KRS 342.122 shall be deemed "unclaimed refunds" if held by an insurance

carrier and owed to an insured employer.

(2) For purposes of this section, "unclaimed refunds" means all unremitted workers'

compensation special fund assessments collected by a carrier, as defined in KRS

342.0011(6), in excess of the applicable special fund assessment rate, owing and

unpaid to an insured employer after the Kentucky Workers' Compensation Funding

Commission has made a det ermination that the carrier has made a reasonable

attempt to return the unclaimed refunds to the insured employer.

(3) Unclaimed refunds shall be remitted by the insurance carrier to the Kentucky

Workers' Compensation Funding Commission, created under KRS 342.1223, and

shall be credited to the benefit reserve fund, created under KRS 342.1229, within

the Kentucky Workers' Compensation Funding Commission. Unclaimed refunds

remitted to the Kentucky Workers' Compensation Funding Commission and held by

that comm ission for more than two (2) years shall become the property of the

benefit reserve fund.

(4) The unclaimed refunds remitted as required in this section to the Kentucky Workers'

Compensation Funding Commission and held for more than two (2) years shall not

thereafter be available to any party who may have a claim to the remitted unclaimed

refunds, and any claims that arise under this section including claims for the

remitted sums shall be forever barred against the Kentucky Workers' Compensation

Funding Commission and any carrier complying with this section.

(5) The provisions of this section shall apply to any refunds or unclaimed refunds

owing and held by a carrier on or after July 15, 1998.