Workers' compensation program

(a) Intent

The intent of this rule is to:

(1) Establish procedures for the Judicial Council's workers' compensation program for the trial courts; and

(2) Ensure that the trial courts' workers' compensation coverage complies with applicable law and is cost-efficient.

(b) Duties of Judicial Council staff

To carry out the duty of the Judicial Council to establish a workers' compensation program for the trial courts, the council's Human Resources office must:

(1) Maintain a contract with a vendor to provide courts, on a voluntary basis, with a cost-efficient workers' compensation coverage program;

(2) Monitor the performance of the vendor with which it contracts to provide such services;

(3) Timely notify the trial courts concerning the terms of the workers' compensation coverage program;

(4) Timely inform the trial courts about the legal requirements with which a workers' compensation program must comply;

(5) Make personnel available by telephone to consult with trial courts regarding the cost and benefits of the plan being offered by the Judicial Council; and

(6) Review and approve or disapprove any other workers' compensation programs identified by a trial court for consideration as a vendor to provide workers' compensation benefits to its employees.

(c) Duties of the trial courts

(1) Each trial court that elects to participate in the program made available through the Judicial Council must:

(A) Timely notify the Human Resources office of its decision to participate in the workers' compensation program being offered through the Judicial Council;

(B) Timely complete and return necessary paperwork to the Human Resources office; and

(C) Timely pay all costs associated with the program.

(2) Each trial court that elects not to participate in the workers' compensation program available through the Judicial Council must:

(A) Independently identify a workers' compensation benefits provider that fulfills all legal responsibilities to offer such benefits in California in a cost-efficient manner;

(B) Timely submit to the Human Resources office for its approval the information necessary to evaluate the workers' compensation program identified by the trial court to provide benefits for its employees; and

(C) Maintain a contract with a workers' compensation benefits provider that fulfills all legal responsibilities to offer such benefits in California in a cost-efficient manner.

Title 10, Judicial Administration Rules(Division 2, Administration of the Judicial Branch(Chapter 6, Court Technology, Information and Automation; renumbered effective January 1, 2013; adopted as Chapter 7.