Administrator shall mean the Service Company that has been
issued a license under Section 107a.09 of the Code and has contracted with a
group workers' compensation pool to manage the activities of the pool, or, if
the pool is self-administered, administrator shall mean the pool officers or
employees designated by the pool to provide this service.
Basic Manual means the Basic Manual for Workers Compensation
and Employers Liability Insurance (10920 W. Glennon Dr., Lakewood, Colorado
80226, 2001 edition, as supplement through October 26, 2006) of the National
Council on Compensation Insurance, Incorporated (NCCI) that is used to classify
employers by assigning their payroll to one or more NCCI codes.
Code means the Illinois Insurance Code [215 ILCS 5 ].
Department means the Department of Insurance.
Director means the Director of the Illinois Department of
Insurance.
Homogeneous Risk Characteristics means similar qualities or
dispositions that impact the likelihood of incurring a financial loss from
workers' compensation and employers' liability exposures. The following are
characteristics identifying some, but not all, elements of homogeneity:
Inherent means existing in the risk as a natural and
inseparable quality or characteristic.
Loss means the amount that any person providing workers'
compensation coverage has a legal obligation to pay.
Loss Frequency means the ratio of the total number of claims
divided by the number of units of exposure, such as the number of claims
divided by the number of employees exposed to injury, or the number of claims
divided by the employees' total payroll.
Loss Severity, which is also known as the average loss amount,
means the ratio of the total costs for all claims divided by the total number
of claims.
Occupational Framework means factors describing a member's
business operations, including but not limited to industries, locations,
production and services processes, materials handled, machinery and equipment
used, tasks performed by employees, and exposure of employees to injury or
disease.
Membership Scope means the type of businesses or employers
eligible to join a pool. Membership scope will be evaluated by the Director
pursuant to Section
575.112
of this Part.
Member means an employer who pools the workers' compensation
and employer's liability exposures imposed on the employer pursuant to the
Workers' Compensation Act, or the Workers' Occupational Diseases Act [820 ILCS
305 and 820 ILCS 310] with other employers that either exhibit homogeneous risk
characteristics or are members of a bona fide professional, commercial,
industrial or trade association that exhibits homogeneous risk
characteristics.
NCCI means the National Council on Compensation Insurance,
Incorporated.
NCCI Class Code means one of the four digit numbers assigned
according to the Basic Manual.
Person means any individual, entity, corporation, partnership,
association, group workers' compensation pool or limited liability
company.
Pool has the same meaning as qualified group workers'
compensation pool defined in Section 107a.05 of the Code.
Trustee means, for purposes of this Part, any member of the
pool's Board of Trustees, if the pool is a trust, or any member of the pool's
Board of Directors, if the pool is any other type of entity.
