[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 20, Volume 3]
[Revised as of April 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 20CFR703.115]

[Page 911-912]
 
                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
  CHAPTER VI--EMPLOYMENT STANDARDS ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 703--INSURANCE REGULATIONS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 703.115  Discharge by the carrier of obligations and duties of employer.

    Every obligation and duty in respect of payment of compensation, the 
providing of medical and other treatment and care, the payment or 
furnishing of any other benefit required by said Act and in respect of 
the carrying out of the administrative procedure required or imposed by 
said Act or the regulations in this part upon an employer shall be 
discharged and carried out by the carrier except that the prescribed 
report of injury or death shall be sent by the employer to the district 
director and to the insurance carrier as required by 33 U.S.C. 930. Such 
carrier shall be jointly responsible with the

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employer for the submission of all reports, notices, forms, and other 
administrative papers required by the district director or the Office in 
the administration of said Act to be submitted by the employer, but any 
form or paper so submitted where required therein shall contain in 
addition to the name and address of the carrier, the full name and 
address of the employer on whose behalf it is submitted. Notice to or 
knowledge of an employer of the occurrence of the injury or death shall 
be notice to or knowledge of such carrier. Jurisdiction of the employer 
by a district director, the Office, or appropriate appellate authority 
under said Act shall be jurisdiction of such carrier. Any requirement 
under any compensation order, finding, or decision shall be binding upon 
such carrier in the same manner and to the same extent as upon the 
employer.