Whenever payment or refund is made to an employee, former employee, or his beneficiary or his heirs, legatees or the representative of his estate pursuant to a written retirement, death, or other employee benefit plan or savings plan, such payment or refund shall fully discharge the employer, former employer, and any trustee making such payment or refund from all adverse claims thereto unless, before such payment or refund is made, the employer or former employer, where the payment or refund is made by the employer or former employer, has received at its principal place of business within this state, written notice by or on behalf of some other person that such other person claims to be entitled to such payment or refund or some part thereof, or where a trustee is making the payment or refund, such notice has been received by the trustee at its home office.
IC 22-2-12-1