11698.01. When the commissioner is authorized to proceed under Section 11698 he or she may do either of the following:
(a) Subject to Sections 11698.2, 11698.21, and 11698.22, enter into reinsurance and assumption agreements with one or more admitted solvent workers’ compensation insurers by the terms of which liability for all those obligations is reinsured and assumed by such insurer.
(b) Use the deposit required pursuant to Section 11691 to pay or procure payment of the insurer’s compensable workers’ compensation claims and those expenses authorized in Section 11698.02.
(Added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 899, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2003.)