HRS §393-48
Paying health benefits when your employer goes bankrupt or breaks the law
If your employer goes bankrupt or fails to follow the health care law, the state's premium supplementation fund can pay your prepaid health benefits. The state can then try to get that money back from your employer. The director will take legal or administrative action to recover the payments.
employees
The statute, as written — Prepaid health care benefits to be paid from the premium supplementation fund; recovery of benefits
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.
Sections this one refers to
§393-33 Fines and court orders for not following the law
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