Mississippi § 71-3-169 - Assignment of rights under workers’ compensation law to association; claims by association against insolvent self-insurer.

§ 71-3-169. Assignment of rights under workers’ compensation law to association; claims by association against insolvent self-insurer.

Any person recovering from an association under Sections 71-3-151 through 71-3-181 shall be deemed to have assigned his rights under the Workers’ Compensation Law to such association to the extent of his recovery from such association. Any claimant seeking the protection of Sections 71-3-151 through 71-3-181 shall cooperate with the association against which claim is made to the same extent as such person would have been required to cooperate with the member self-insurer in default. Such association shall have no cause of action under the Workers’ Compensation Law against the claimant of the member self-insurer in default for any sums it has paid out except such causes of action as such member self-insurer in default would have had if such sums had been paid by such member self-insurer in default. An association may recover from the self-insurer in default and from a group self-insurer in default all amounts paid by such association on account of covered claims of employees of the member self-insurer in default and any group self-insurer in default to which such member self-insurer in default belongs, as well as all expenses incurred by such association in evaluating, adjusting, defending or settling covered claims of such employees. It shall be presumed that all amounts paid by such association under this section are reasonable, necessary and otherwise in compliance with this chapter. There shall be added to any recovery under this section expenses of litigation of such association in obtaining such recovery, interest at the rate of eight percent (8%) per annum commencing on the date of such default and a ten percent (10%) penalty.