(a) An employer required to secure the payment of compensation under this chapter who fails to do so is guilty of a class B felony if the amount involved exceeds $25,000 or a class C felony if the amount involved is $25,000 or less. If the employer is a corporation, its president, secretary, and treasurer are also severally liable to the fine or imprisonment imposed for the failure of the corporation to secure the payment of compensation. The president, secretary, and treasurer are severally personally liable, jointly with the corporation, for the compensation or other benefit which accrues under this chapter in respect to an injury which happens to an employee of the corporation while it has failed to secure the payment of compensation as required by AS 23.30.075.
(b) An employer who knowingly transfers, sells, encumbers, assigns, or in any manner disposes of, conceals, secretes, or destroys any property after one of the employer's employees has been injured within the scope of this chapter, with intent to avoid the payment of compensation under this chapter to the employee or the employee's dependents, is guilty of a class B felony if the amount involved exceeds $25,000 or a class C felony if the amount involved is $25,000 or less. If the employer is a corporation, its president, secretary, and treasurer are also severally liable to the penalty of imprisonment as well as jointly liable with the corporation for the fine.
(c) This section does not affect any other liability of the employer under this chapter.
Structure Alaska Statutes
Title 23. Labor and Workers' Compensation
Chapter 30. Alaska Workers' Compensation Act
Article 6. General Provisions.
Sec. 23.30.230. Persons not covered.
Sec. 23.30.235. Cases in which no compensation is payable.
Sec. 23.30.236. Members of the organized militia as employees.
Sec. 23.30.237. High school students in work-study programs as employees of the state.
Sec. 23.30.238. Volunteer emergency medical technicians as employees.
Sec. 23.30.239. Sole proprietors and partners as employees.
Sec. 23.30.241. Special officers as employees.
Sec. 23.30.242. Members of state boards and commissions as employees.
Sec. 23.30.243. Extending coverage to certain firefighters.
Sec. 23.30.244. Emergency and disaster relief forces as state employees.
Sec. 23.30.245. Invalid agreements.
Sec. 23.30.246. Search and rescue personnel as state employees.
Sec. 23.30.247. Discrimination prohibited.
Sec. 23.30.250. Penalties for fraudulent or misleading acts; damages in civil actions.
Sec. 23.30.255. Penalty for failure to pay compensation.
Sec. 23.30.260. Penalty for receiving unapproved fees and soliciting.
Sec. 23.30.263. Immunity from civil liability for workplace safety inspections.