The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Utah
- Level
- Sector regulator
- Authority
- Utah Code 31A-19a-216(1) (guidance on receipt of premium)
- Issued
- 2020-03-26 Mar. 26, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-26
- End
- Guidance; no stated end (read as 2020-06-30)
- In force
- Mar. 26, 2020 to June 30, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Other
- Addressees
- insurers offering workers' compensation insurance in Utah
- Functions reached
- IN insurance (premium treatment for closed employers)
- State regulator's contemporaneous finding that government restrictions limited business operations
- Collection
- Utah UT
Operative words
Government authorities recently imposed social distancing restrictions to reduce the spread of the coronavirus in Utah communities. Those restrictions have the effect of limiting the operations of many businesses. In response, some business owners have decided to close but continue to pay employees.... Utah law does not prohibit workers' compensation carriers from suspending premium payments by the closed-but-paying employers.
Enforcement
Regulatory guidance to licensed insurers
Notes
A State regulator's own recital, six days after the first UDOH closure order, that governmental restrictions 'have the effect of limiting the operations of many businesses.'