N.Y. Workers’ Compensation Law 90 – Dividends
§ 90. Dividends. Policyholders insured in the state insurance fund may be divided into such groups as shall be equitable for the purpose of accounting and declaration of dividends but for the purpose of paying compensation the state fund shall be deemed one and indivisible. Separate accounts shall be kept of income and of losses and expenses incurred, including contributions to catastrophe surplus and reserves adequate to meet anticipated losses and carry all claims to maturity, for each such group. If such accounting shows a balance remaining to the credit of the group at the close of any policy period, which shall be deemed to be safely and properly so applied, there may be credited or paid to each individual member of such group such proportion of such balance as the amount of his earned premium sustains to the total earned premium of the group for the period for which the accounting is made. If any member who has withdrawn from the group would otherwise have been entitled to such a dividend, the same may be credited or paid to him.
Terms Used In N.Y. Workers' Compensation Law 90
- compensation: include the benefits in relation to volunteer firefighters or volunteer ambulance workers pursuant to the volunteer firefighters' benefit law or the volunteer ambulance workers' benefit law. See N.Y. Workers' Compensation Law 100
- Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
- fund: shall be deemed to include both the workers' compensation fund and the disability benefits fund unless the context otherwise indicates. See N.Y. Workers' Compensation Law 76