(a) Each corporation acting as the guaranty fund shall independently determine periodically the amount of money each Arkansas workers' compensation self-insurer should contribute to each fund in order to provide an adequate pool of money to pay workers' compensation benefits owed by an Arkansas self-insurer when such self-insurer fails to meet its workers' compensation benefits obligations.
(b) The Workers' Compensation Commission shall assess all workers' compensation self-insurers in an amount determined by each corporation, and the commission shall transmit the moneys collected to each corporation to be used solely to make workers' compensation benefit payments from each fund and to defray the expenses of each fund.
(c) At any time that a workers' compensation self-insurer guaranty fund becomes inadequate to make payments to its claimants, the balance of that fund shall be prorated equally among the claimants, and the Arkansas workers' compensation self-insurers who are members of that fund shall be assessed an amount necessary to pay the outstanding claims and expenses and to replenish that fund.
(d) The inadequacy of one (1) fund to make payments to claimants shall have no effect on the operation of the remaining fund, nor shall the assets of the remaining fund be utilized in any manner to satisfy the claims of claimants to the fund suffering from the inadequacy.
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