When any employer is insured against liability for compensation with any insurance carrier and such insurance carrier shall have paid any compensation for which the employer is liable or shall have assumed the liability of the employer therefor, it shall be subrogated to all the rights and duties of the employer and may enforce any such rights in its own name or in the name of the injured employee or his personal representative; provided, however, that nothing in this section shall be construed as conferring upon insurance carriers any other or further rights than those existing in the employer at the time of the injury to his employee, anything in the policy of insurance to the contrary notwithstanding.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 72-422; 1952 Code Section 72-422; 1942 Code Section 7035-11; 1936 (39) 1231.
Structure South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 42 - Workers' Compensation
Chapter 5 - Insurance And Self-insurance
Section 42-5-10. Employer shall secure payment of compensation; extent of liability.
Section 42-5-20. Insurance or proof of financial ability to pay required; self-insurer prohibited.
Section 42-5-30. Employer shall file evidence of compliance with Title.
Section 42-5-40. Penalty for failure to secure payment of compensation.
Section 42-5-45. Penalty for failure of employer to secure payment of compensation.
Section 42-5-50. Certificate of compliance.
Section 42-5-60. Insurance deemed subject to title; approval of forms.
Section 42-5-70. Clauses required in insurance contracts.
Section 42-5-80. Liability of insurer.
Section 42-5-130. Procedure upon withdrawal of carrier from State.
Section 42-5-190. Tax on self-insurers.
Section 42-5-210. Insurance carrier subrogated to rights of employer.
Section 42-5-220. Compromises by carrier must be approved.
Section 42-5-230. Manner in which notice to insurance carrier given.
Section 42-5-250. Title not applicable to insurance for single catastrophe hazards.