Hawaii Revised Statutes 393-48 – Prepaid health care benefits to be paid from the premium supplementation fund; recovery of benefits
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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 393-48
- Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
- Director: means the director of labor and industrial relations. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 393-3
- 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
- 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
Prepaid health care benefits shall be paid from the premium supplementation fund to an employee who is entitled to receive prepaid health care benefits but cannot receive such benefits because of bankruptcy of the employee’s employer or because the employee’s employer is not in compliance with this chapter. Benefits paid from the premium supplementation fund to such employee may be recovered from the employee’s bankrupt or noncomplying employer. The director shall institute administrative and legal actions as provided in section 393-33 to effect recovery of such benefits.