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Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Chapter 18 — Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation

§ 936. Insurance policies

Statutory text

(a)

Every policy or contract of insurance issued under authority of this chapter shall contain (1) a provision to carry out the provisions of section 935 of this title, and (2) a provision that insolvency or bankruptcy of the employer and/or discharge therein shall not relieve the carrier from payment of compensation for disability or death sustained by an employee during the life of such policy or contract.

(b)

No contract or policy of insurance issued by a carrier under this chapter shall be canceled prior to the date specified in such contract or policy for its expiration until at least thirty days have elapsed after a notice of cancellation has been sent to the deputy commissioner and to the employer in accordance with the provisions of subsection (c) of section 912 of this title.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 69–509 § 36 · 44 Stat. 1424

    Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 936

    (Mar. 4, 1927, ch. 509, § 36, 44 Stat. 1441.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Mar. 4, 1927, ch. 509, § 36, 44 Stat. 1441.)

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Credits

(Mar. 4, 1927, ch. 509, § 36, 44 Stat. 1441.)

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