A workers’ compensation insurer is entitled to continue to receive reimbursements from the Massachusetts second injury fund even after it stops writing business in the state, the state’s high court has ruled in an opinion reversing itself on the issue.
The court said insurers are eligible for reimbursement so long as the employer pays the assessments that supply the revenues for the fund through its new insurer.
In a 2015 ruling the same court had found that insurers that are no longer collecting assessments from employers for the Workers’ Compensation Trust Fund are not eligible for reimbursements from the fund.
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