22 GCA § 9105

Liability for Compensation

Guam Code AnnotatedTitle 22 — Business Regulation

COL5/12/2020 CH. 9 WORKER’S COMPENSATION

(a)Every employer shall be liable for and shall secure payment to his employees of the compensation payable under §§ 9108, 9109, and 9110. In the case of an employer who is a subcontractor, the contractor shall be liable for and shall secure payment of such compensation to employees of the subcontractor unless the subcontractor has secured such payment.

(b)Compensation shall be payable irrespective of fault as to the cause of the injury.

(c)[Repealed.]

(d)[Repealed.]

§ The story of this section

Enacted by P.L. 25-3 § IV — introduced as Bill 147-25 · introduced by Mark Forbes
Repealed by P.L. 25-91 § 3 — introduced as Bill 368-25 · introduced by Vicente C. Pangelinan

Interpreted by the courts:

2000 Guam 6 — Cresensio C. Bondoc vs. Worker's Compensation Commission and Gerber Enterprises, Inc. (2000) · per Benjamin J.F. Cruz, J. · cited at ¶35
2001 Guam 11 — Glenn W. Gibbs and American Home Assurance Co., v. Lee Holmes, Joan Holmes, and American Home Assurance Co. (2001) · per F. Philip Carbullido, J. · cited at ¶13
2001 Guam 5 — Edwin A. Villalon, Rosalina Villalon and Pacific Indemnity Insurance Company v. Hawaiian Rock Products, Inc. and Nationa (2001) · per Peter C. Siguenza, J. · pinpoints (b) at ¶10
2004 Guam 23 — Robert H. Amerault, Plaintiff-Appellant, vs. Intelcom Support Services, Inc., a Pennsylvania Corporation, Liberty Mutual (2004) · per Janet Healy Weeks, J. · pinpoints (a) at ¶14

Reconstructed from the Guam Code Annotated. For the authoritative version, see the official PDF.