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Workers’ Compensation Trust Glossary

Following are definitions from the Local Government Center Workers’ Compensation Trust, LLC (“LGC-WCT”) 2007 Member Agreement. Related definitions from the Workers' Compensation Division of the New Hampshire Department of Labor can be viewed through this Web link:

http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rsa/html/XXIII/281-A/281-A-2.htm

Agreement or Member Agreement means this agreement as it may be amended from time to time in accordance with the provisions hereof, all endorsements hereto and the related certificate and schedules, including without limitation the information page of the certificate and schedules.

Bylaws means the bylaws of Local Government Center, Inc., as such bylaws may be amended from time to time and any rules or regulations promulgated thereunder.

CCMSI means Cannon Cochran Management Services, Inc.

Contribution means an amount contributed towards a Plan by a Member.

Integrated Benefits Management Program™ means the Workers’ Compensation Plan, the Unemployment Compensation Plan, and any other benefit Plan that is or may be offered to Members by LGC-WCT pursuant to this Agreement.

LGC means Local Government Center, Inc., a New Hampshire non-profit corporation.

Managed Care Program means the managed care program approved by the New Hampshire Department of Labor and ratified by the New Hampshire Advisory Council on Workers’ Compensation and engaged by LGC-WCT as part of the Workers’ Compensation Plan.

Member means a New Hampshire county, municipality, school administrative unit, school district, charter school established pursuant to NHRSA Chap. 194-B or other public or quasi-public entity which belongs to the New Hampshire Municipal Association, LLC, and is a Participant.

Participant(s) means the Member(s) that are enrolled and participating in a Plan.

Plan(s) means the Workers’ Compensation Plan, the Unemployment Compensation Plan, and any other benefit plan of the Integrated Benefits Management Program, as the context requires.

Term means the calendar year beginning on January 1 and ending December 31 (and any portion thereof as agreed to by LGC-WCT and the Participant) for which the Member has paid Contributions to LGC-WCT for the protection afforded under this Member Agreement.

Unemployment Compensation Law means the unemployment compensation law of the State of New Hampshire applicable to the Participant, including any regulations promulgated thereunder, and any amendments to that law which are in effect during the Term.

Unemployment Compensation Plan means the protection afforded by this Agreement for a Participant’s liability under Unemployment Compensation Law.

Workers’ Compensation Law means the workers’ compensation law of the State of New Hampshire applicable to the Participant, including any regulations promulgated thereunder, and any amendments to that law which are in effect during the Term.

Workers’ Compensation Plan means the protection afforded by this Agreement for a Participant’s liability under Workers’ Compensation Law. The protection afforded may include the Participant’s agreement hereby to subscribe to the services of the Managed Care Program. The Participant agrees as part of the Managed Care Program to notify employees of the necessity to use the Managed Care Program, send injured employees only to health care providers contracted for the Managed Care Program and be willing to attempt to make work available within any injured employees physical limitations up to the notification of the employee’s maximum medical improvement and physical restriction.