Servicing requirements for self-insurers and multiple-employer welfare arrangements.

(1) Each individual self-insurer or multiple-employer welfare arrangement is required to provide proof of compliance with the provisions of this section regarding servicing requirements.

(2) It is the sole responsibility of each individual self-insurer or multiple-employer welfare arrangement to provide for competent persons to service its program in the areas of claims adjusting and underwriting. If the individual self-insurer or multiple-employer welfare arrangement is unable or unwilling to provide any or all of these services through the use of its own employees, it shall contract with outside companies which have the necessary qualifications to provide these services.

(3) It is the responsibility of the self-insurer or multiple-employer welfare arrangement to notify the office within 90 days of changing its method of fulfilling its servicing requirements from those which were previously filed with the office.