Hawaii Revised Statutes 393-15 – Continuation of coverage in case of inability to earn wages
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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 393-15
- Employer: means any individual or type of organization, including any partnership, association, trust, estate, joint stock company, insurance company, or corporation, whether domestic or foreign, a debtor in possession or receiver or trustee in bankruptcy, or the legal representative of a deceased person, who has one or more regular employees in the employer's employment. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 393-3
- month: means a calendar month; and the word "year" a calendar year. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-20
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- Premium: means the amount payable to a prepaid health care plan contractor as consideration for the contractor's obligations under a prepaid health care plan. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 393-3
- Wages: means all remuneration for services from whatever source, including commissions, bonuses, and tips and gratuities paid directly to any individual by a customer of the individual's employer, and the cash value of all remuneration in any medium other than cash. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 393-3
If an employee is hospitalized or otherwise prevented by sickness from working, the employer shall enable the employee to continue the employee’s coverage by contributing to the premium the amounts paid by the employer toward such premium prior to the employee’s sickness for the period that such employee is hospitalized or prevented by sickness from working. This obligation shall not exceed a period of three months following the month during which the employee became hospitalized or disabled from working, or the period for which the employer has undertaken the payment of the employee’s regular wages in such case, whichever is longer.