POLICY RE A2223 REDLINE.PDF

MARICOPA COUNTY INTERNAL POLICY
Policy Title: Policy Number: A2223
FUNDING AND PAYMENT OF WORKER’S’
COMPENSATION CLAIMS Current Adoption 5-20-2015
Date:
Board Agenda
Approved by: Number:
BOARD OF SUPERVISORSROY PEDERSON Original Adoption 11-1991
Date:
I. PURPOSE
To provide establishfor a consistent County-wide policy regarding the funding and
payment structure offor claim settlements and Workers' Compensation benefits and .
claim settlements.
II. POLICYDEFINITION
A. Appointing Authority: An elected official, the single administrative or executive
head of a Department/Special District, or the designated representative authorized to
act in this capacity.
III. POLICY
The County is insured through a Self-Insured Trust Fund established in 1981
by the Board of Supervisors for the funding and payment of claim expenses.
The fund is administered by the Risk Management Department, and is
overseen by a Board of Trustees appointed by the Board of Supervisors.
Each elected official and department directorAppointing Authority is responsible
for the properly safeguarding of County property under their care and custody,
including subsequent assignment of equipment, vehicles, machinery and real
property used by County employees assigned to them. (Ssee Policy A2206,
Personal Liability for Operating Equipment).
Workers' Compensation or industrial injury claims, and other claims against
the County will be administered by Risk Management. Elected officials and
department directors should follow policy A2218 to insure timely reporting of
claims.develop internal reporting procedures to insure timely reporting of claims
to a designated person in the department; A report should then be submitted
to Risk Management. On iIndustrial injury claimsies, the Risk Management
Incident Reporting WebForm (http://ebc.maricopa.gov/RM/insert a link
here)an Employer's Report of Injury shall be submitted to Risk Management no
later than 24 hours ten (10) calendar days following the incident on the Risk
Management Incident Reporting Website http://ebc.maricopa.gov/RM/ . All
other claims shall be submitted to Risk Management as soon as practical.
(sSee Policy A2218, Reporting Industrial Injury or Illness).
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Policy Title: Policy Number: A2223
FUNDING AND PAYMENT OF WORKER’S
COMPENSATION CLAIMS Current Adoption xx-xx-xxxx
Date:
A. Any incident involving the public shall be recorded, and a copy of this
record furnished to RiskManagement for review and initiation of any
subsequent acProcedures
1. Effective July 1, 1981, tThe Board of Supervisors established a Self-
Insured Trust Fund for the funding and payment of claims expenses.
a. Funding and allocation of losses shall be anticipated and addressed in a
systematic manner utilizing the following methods:
i. Use of historical loss data and trends;
ii. Actuarial studies projecting future losses;
iii. Cost of losses by department in order to allocate funding back to
the departments generating the losses;
iv. Minimizing large fluctuations in departmental budgets by making
pProvisions for spreading the risk of losses throughby the Trust
Fund absorbing large single losses to minimize large fluctuations in
departmental budThe Trust shall absorb large single loss charges
to minimize fluctuations to department budgets.
b. Payment of losses from the Trust Fund in general shall not include
the following:
c.
d. Losses to personal property of County employees unless specifically
authorized by the Trustees of the Self-Insured Trust Fund (sSee Policy
A2205, Personal Property Liability).;
e. Damage/loss to County property under $10500 in value or repair
cost. Costs under $1000500 per claim shall be the responsibility of
the department suffering experiencing the loss.;
f. Losses normally excluded under policy provisions of comprehensive
liability, general, auto, property, and professional liability insurance
policies, unless authorized by the Trustees of the Self-Insured Trust
Fund.
Revision History
Version Revision Date Description of Revision
1 Nov 1991 Initial version
This policy has been revised to conform to modified
policy A2218, Reporting Industrial Injury or Illness.
2 20 May 2015 This revised policy now incorporates language
related to the new Risk Management Incident
Reporting Web Form that has been developed.
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