HRS §386-125
When the employer knows, the insurance company is treated as knowing
This section requires every workers' compensation insurance policy to say that if the employer learns about an injury, the insurance company is treated as having learned about it too. The insurance company must also follow any orders or decisions made against the employer about paying benefits.
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The statute, as written — Knowledge of employer imputed to insurance carrier
Every policy and contract shall contain a provision that, as between the employee and the insurance carrier, the notice to or knowledge of the occurrence of the injury on the part of the employer shall be deemed notice or knowledge, as the case may be, on the part of the insurance carrier; that jurisdiction of the employer shall, for the purpose of this chapter, be jurisdiction of the insurance carrier, and that the insurance carrier shall in all respects be bound by and subject to the orders, findings, and decisions rendered against the employer for the payment of compensation under this chapter.
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