Questão jurídica principal
Whether the appellant owed 2008 accident insurance premiums and collection costs to the insurer with whom the contract actually existed, despite later SUVA assignment.
Decisão extraída
Yes. The employer owes the premiums to the insurer that actually covered the period in question; later SUVA assignment does not retroactively extinguish the contractual premium claim.
Fundamentação extraída
The Court applied by analogy the case law on accident coverage: legal certainty requires reliance on the insurer actually in force during the relevant period. The same logic applies to premiums, and parties cannot dissolve the past contractual relationship by invoking that SUVA would have been the proper insurer. The SUVA order was only prospective from 2010.