RCW 51.16.035 Classifications—Premiums—Rules—Workers’ compensation advisory committee recommendations. (1) The department shall classify all occupations or industries in accordance with their degree of hazard and fix therefor basic rates of premium which shall be: (a) The lowest necessary to maintain actuarial solvency of the accident and medical aid funds in accordance with recognized insurance principles; and […]
RCW 51.16.040 Occupational diseases. The compensation and benefits provided for occupational diseases shall be paid and in the same manner as compensation and benefits for injuries under this title. [ 1971 ex.s. c 289 § 83; 1961 c 23 § 51.16.040. Prior: 1959 c 308 § 12; 1941 c 235 § 2; Rem. Supp. 1941 […]
RCW 51.16.042 Occupational and environmental research facility. Inasmuch as business, industry and labor desire to provide for testing, research, training and teaching facilities and consulting services at the University of Washington for industrial and occupational health for workers in the environmental research facility thereat, all employers shall bear their proportionate share of the cost therefor. […]
RCW 51.16.060 Quarterly report of payrolls. (Effective until January 1, 2023.) Every employer not qualifying as a self-insurer, shall insure with the state and shall, on or before the last day of January, April, July and October of each year thereafter, furnish the department with a true and accurate payroll for the period in which […]
RCW 51.16.070 Employer’s records—Unified business identifier—Confidentiality. (1)(a) Every employer shall keep at his or her place of business a record of his or her employment from which the information needed by the department may be obtained and such record shall at all times be open to the inspection of the director, supervisor of industrial insurance, […]
RCW 51.16.090 Continuity of cost experience. To the end that no employer shall evade the burdens imposed by an unfavorable or high cost experience, the director may determine whether or not an increase, decrease, or change (1) of operating property; (2) of interest in operating property; (3) of employer; (4) of personnel or interest in […]
RCW 51.16.100 Classification changes. It is the intent that the accident fund shall ultimately become neither more nor less than self-supporting, except as provided in RCW 51.16.105 and, if in the adjustment of premium rates by the director the moneys paid into the fund by any class or classes shall be insufficient to properly and […]
RCW 51.16.105 Departmental expenses, financing, accounting. (1) All department expenses relating to industrial safety and health services of the department pertaining to workers’ compensation shall be paid by the department and financed by premiums and by assessments collected from a self-insurer as provided in this title. (2) The department shall include in all rate notices […]
RCW 51.16.107 Information and training on premium liability. The department shall, working with business associations and other employer and employee groups when practical, publish information and provide training to promote understanding of the premium liability that may be incurred under this chapter. [ 2004 c 243 § 4.] NOTES: Adoption of rules—2004 c 243: See […]
RCW 51.16.110 New businesses or resumed or continued operations. Every employer who shall enter into any business, or who shall resume operations in any work or plant after the final adjustment of his or her payroll in connection therewith, or who was formerly a self-insurer and wishes to continue his or her operations subject to […]
RCW 51.16.120 Distribution of further accident cost. (1) Whenever a worker has a previous bodily disability from any previous injury or disease, whether known or unknown to the employer, and suffers a further disability from injury or occupational disease in employment covered by this title and becomes totally and permanently disabled from the combined effects […]
RCW 51.16.130 Distribution of catastrophe cost. Whenever there shall occur an accident in which three or more employees of an employer insured with the state fund are fatally injured or sustain permanent total disability, the amount of total cost other than medical aid costs arising out of such accident that shall be charged to the […]
RCW 51.16.140 Premium liability of worker. (1) Every employer who is not a self-insurer shall deduct from the pay of each of his or her workers one-half of the amount he or she is required to pay, for medical benefits within each risk classification. Such amount shall be periodically determined by the director and reported […]
RCW 51.16.150 Delinquent employers—Penalty after demand—Injunctive relief. If any employer shall default in any payment to any fund, the sum due may be collected by action at law in the name of the state as plaintiff, and such right of action shall be in addition to any other right of action or remedy. If such […]
RCW 51.16.155 Failure or refusal of employer to report or pay premiums due—Collection. In every case where an employer insured with the state fails or refuses to file any report of payroll required by the department and fails or refuses to pay the premiums due on such unreported payroll, the department shall have authority to […]
RCW 51.16.160 Lien for payments due—Priority—Probate, insolvency, etc. In all cases of probate, insolvency, assignment for the benefit of creditors, or bankruptcy, the claim of the state for the payments due shall be a lien prior to all other liens or claims and on a parity with prior tax liens and the mere existence of […]
RCW 51.16.170 Lien for premiums, assessments, contributions, and penalties—Priority—In general—Notice. Separate and apart from and in addition to the foregoing provisions in this chapter, the claims of the state for payments and penalties due under this title shall be a lien prior to all other liens or claims and on a parity with prior tax […]
RCW 51.16.180 Property acquired by state on execution. The director shall have the custody of all property acquired by the state at execution sale upon judgments obtained for delinquent payments and penalties therefor and costs, and may sell and dispose of the same at private sales for the sale purchase price, and shall pay the […]
RCW 51.16.190 Limitation on collection actions. (1) “Action” means, but is not limited to, a notice of assessment pursuant to RCW 51.48.120, an action at law pursuant to RCW 51.16.150, or any other administrative or civil process authorized by this title for the determination of liability for premiums, assessments, penalties, contributions, or other sums, or […]
RCW 51.16.200 Payment of tax by employer quitting business—Liability of successor. Whenever any employer quits business, or sells out, exchanges, or otherwise disposes of the employer’s business or stock of goods, any tax payable hereunder shall become immediately due and payable, and the employer shall, within ten days thereafter, make a return and pay the […]
