S489 - Clarify Workers' Comp. Policy Cancellation. (SL 2017-150)

Overview: S.L. 2017-150 provides that an insurer's delivery of a notice of cancellation of a workers' compensation insurance policy will be deemed to have been completed within three days of having been sent if the insurer also sends it on the same day by first-class mail and by electronic means to the insured and to any other person designated in the policy to receive notice. The act also provides that if the deputy commissioner or commissioner who conducted the hearing is unable to decide the case and issue an award, the Commission is authorized to appoint another deputy commissioner or commissioner to do so. This act became effective July 20, 2017, and applies to notices of cancellation sent on or after that date and to claims pending on or after that date