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Reinsurer Must Assume Payments of Workers’ Compensation Benefits, Mass. Court Says

ACE American Insurance Co., rather than the state workers’ compensation trust fund, is required to pay benefits to an injured worker pursuant to a reinsurance policy that covered a self-insurer’s surety bond, a Massachusetts appeals court has held.

In a May 2 opinion, the Massachusetts Court of Appeals affirmed that G. L. c. 152, § 25A(2)(c), of the Workers’ Compensation Act requires ACE as a reinsurer to pay benefits in the event of exhaustion of a self-insurer’s surety bond.

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