Section 11871 Of Article 5. Coverage Of Public Employers From California Insurance Code >> Division 2. >> Part 3. >> Chapter 4. >> Article 5.
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. The State Compensation Insurance Fund may enter into a
master agreement with the Department of Human Resources to render
services in the adjustment and disposition of claims for workers'
compensation to any state agencies, including any officer,
department, division, bureau, commission, board or authority, not
insured with the fund.
The master agreement shall provide for rendition of services at a
uniform rate to all agencies, except that the rate for the Department
of the California Highway Patrol may be fixed independently of the
uniform rate.
The fund may, in accordance with the agreement, adjust and dispose
of claims for workers' compensation made by an officer or employee
of any state agency not insured with the fund.
The fund may make all expenditures, including payment to claimants
for medical care or for adjustment or settlement of claims,
necessary to the adjustment and final disposition of claims. The
agreement shall provide that the state agency whose officer or
employee is a claimant shall reimburse the fund for the expenditures
and for the actual cost of services rendered.
The fund may in its own name, or in the name of the state agency
for which the services are performed, do any and all things necessary
to recover on behalf of the state agency for which it renders
service any and all amounts which an employer might recover from
third persons under Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 3850) of Part
1 of Division 4 of the Labor Code, or which an insurer might recover
pursuant to Section 11662 including the right to commence and
prosecute actions, to file, pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with
Section 3850) of Part 1 of Division 4 of the Labor Code, liens for
whatever sums would be recoverable by suit against a third person, to
intervene in other court proceedings, and to compromise claims and
actions before or after commencement of suit or after entry of
judgment when in the opinion of the fund full collection cannot be
enforced.