---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 936"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "936"
heading: "Insurance policies"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/936"
units:
  - "Chapter 18 — Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation"
---

# §936. Insurance policies

- (a) Every policy or contract of insurance issued under authority of this chapter shall contain (1) a provision to carry out the provisions of [section 935 of this title](/usc/33/935.md), and (2) a provision that insolvency or bankruptcy of the [employer](/usc/33/902.md?p=4) and/or discharge therein shall not relieve the [carrier](/usc/33/902.md?p=5) from payment of [compensation](/usc/33/902.md?p=12) for [disability](/usc/33/902.md?p=10) or death sustained by an [employee](/usc/33/902.md?p=3) during the life of such policy or contract.
- (b) No contract or policy of insurance issued by a [carrier](/usc/33/902.md?p=5) under this chapter shall be canceled prior to the date specified in such contract or policy for its expiration until at least thirty days have elapsed after a notice of cancellation has been sent to the [deputy commissioner](/usc/33/902.md?p=7) and to the [employer](/usc/33/902.md?p=4) in accordance with the provisions of subsection (c) of [section 912 of this title](/usc/33/912.md).

## Source credit

(Mar. 4, 1927, ch. 509, § 36, 44 Stat. 1441.)