130 - Workmen's compensation premiums shall be deemed preferred claims.

§  130.  Workmen's  compensation  premiums  shall  be deemed preferred  claims. All  premiums  and  interest  charges  on  account  of  policies  insuring employers against liability under this chapter which may be due  to  the  state  insurance  fund,  or  any  stock  corporation  or mutual  association authorized to transact the business  of  insurance  in  this  state,  and  all  judgments recovered by the state insurance fund or any  such insurance  corporation  or  association  against  any  employer  on  actions  brought under any such policy, shall be deemed preferred claims  in all insolvency or bankruptcy  proceedings,  trustee  proceedings  for  administration  of  estates  and  receiverships  involving  the employer  liable therefor or the property of such employer, provided however  that  claims for wages shall receive prior preference in all such proceedings.