In Alabama, most businesses with 5 or more regular employees (including business officers and members) must have workers’ comp coverage, unless your workers are household employees or farm laborers.
Exception: Businesses involved in the construction of new single-family residential homes (or providing on-site assistance for this type of construction) are required to have coverage for all employees.
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Employers with 1 or more employees must have workers’ compensation insurance in Alaska.
Exceptions:
- Executive officers in a for-profit corporation can choose to exclude themselves from coverage.
- Sole proprietors, partners, executive officers in a nonprofit corporation, members in a member-managed LLC, part-time babysitters, non-commercial cleaners, harvest help, and similar part-time or transient workers, sports officials for amateur events, contract entertainers, commercial fishers, and taxi drivers paid under contract are exempt.
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In Arizona, any business (including sole proprietors) that regularly hires or employs at least 1 employee—regardless of the number or type of workers—is required to carry workers’ comp insurance. This includes all workers who are part-time, full-time, minors, aliens, or family members.
Exceptions:
- Sole proprietors can choose to opt out of coverage if they don’t have employees.
- Coverage isn’t required for working partners, independent contractors, casual workers, or domestic servants working in your home.
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In Arkansas, most businesses with 3 or more regular employees are required to carry workers’ comp insurance. Employers with fewer than three employees should always check with the state authority before assuming they’re not required to carry workers’ comp insurance.
Exceptions: Employers with two or fewer employees, farm laborers, and real estate agents are exempt.
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In California, all employers and work situations (even those with just one employee) must carry workers’ comp coverage. This includes corporate officers and directors. If you’re an out-of-state employer, you may need coverage for any employees regularly working in California, or if you enter into a contract of employment.
Exceptions:
Executive officers and directors of corporations can be excluded if they own 10% of the outstanding stock. If the directors and officers fully own the corporation, they can choose to be excluded from coverage.
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In Colorado, all businesses with 1 or more employees are required to carry workers’ comp insurance. Anyone hired to perform services for pay is considered an employee, whether full or part-time.
Exceptions:
- Exemptions include casual maintenance or repair work for a business for less than $2,000 per calendar year, private domestic and maintenance or repair workers not working full-time, real estate agents and brokers paid by commission, independent contractors with no employees, and drivers working with a contract carrier.
- A corporate officer of a corporation or a member of an LLC may choose to exclude themselves from coverage.
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In Connecticut, all businesses with 1 or more employees—whether full-time, part-time, or contract—are required to carry workers’ comp coverage, including uninsured subcontractors.
Exceptions:
- You’re not required to carry coverage for those employees who are able to self-insure.
- Corporate officers and members of multi-member LLCs are automatically included but can choose to opt out.
- Single-member LLCs are not required to carry worker’s comp coverage but may purchase it.
- Partnerships must provide coverage for employees but don’t have to cover themselves.
- Employers or workers who work in or around a private home for 26 hours or less per week are exempt.
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In Delaware, businesses with one or more employees are required to carry workers’ comp insurance.
Exceptions:
- Farm workers are exempt but employers can choose to provide coverage.
- Workers considered to be independent contractors and not employees are also exempt.
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In the District of Columbia, businesses with 1 or more employees are required to carry workers’ comp insurance. Additionally, homeowners are required to provide coverage for domestic workers if 1 or more works at least 240 hours in a calendar quarter in the same or a previous year.
Exceptions: Sole proprietors without employees are not required to carry coverage.
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In Florida, workers’ comp coverage requirements vary by industry and headcount:
- Construction businesses with 1 or more employees and non-construction industry employees with 4 or more employees (full or part-time, including corporate officers and LLC members) must carry workers’ comp insurance.
- Agricultural businesses with 6 or more regular employees and (or) 12 or more seasonal employees who work for more than 30 days are required to carry coverage.
- Sub-contractors are responsible for providing coverage for their workers but primary contractors are responsible for ensuring that the sub-contractor has worker’s comp insurance.
- Out-of-state employers must immediately notify their carrier that they have employees working in Florida, carry a Florida workers’ comp policy, or have the out-of-state policy include Florida.
Exceptions:
- Corporate officers are considered employees unless they choose to exempt themselves from coverage.
- Sole proprietors and partners in the non-construction industry are not considered to be employees unless they choose to be.
- Members of an LLC will be considered as corporate officers and employees unless they choose to be exempt.
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In Georgia, businesses with 3 or more employees are required to carry workers’ comp coverage. This includes individuals, firms, associations, and corporations. Exempted officers of corporations and family members of LLCs are counted as employees. Contractors who subcontract any part of their work may be liable for coverage for the subcontractor’s employees if the subcontractor does not have coverage.
Exceptions: Georgia considers sole proprietors and partners to be employers and not employees, so they are exempt from workers’ comp coverage requirements.
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In Hawaii, any business with 1 or more employees must carry workers’ comp coverage. This includes full and part-time, permanent, and temporary workers. LLC members must also be covered. Employers can choose to cover any excluded employees.
Exceptions:
- Sole proprietors and partners are exempt but can choose to cover themselves.
- Domestic workers earning less than $225 per calendar quarter are exempt.
- Some 25% stockholders and all 50% stockholders, and real estate salespeople who are paid on commission are all exempt.
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In Idaho, businesses with 1 or more full or part-time, seasonal, or occasional employees are required to have worker’s comp insurance.
Exceptions:
- Sole proprietors are exempt but can choose to cover themselves.
- Household and domestic workers, and sole proprietors who employ family members that live in their household are exempt. Certain family member employees of a sole proprietor employer who don’t live in the same household as the employer can also be exempt.
- Pilots of agricultural planes, real estate salespeople paid by commission, and casual employees whose work occurs occasionally or at irregular times (and whose work is not related to the type of business conducted by the employer) are exempt.
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In Illinois, workers’ comp coverage is required in nearly every work situation and for every employer—even those with one part-time employee. Coverage is required for employees who are family members unless they qualify for an exemption. If your business is in construction, trucking at a construction site, or other hazardous fields, you’re required to obtain insurance in almost every instance.
Exceptions:
- Sole proprietors with no employees are exempt but may choose to purchase insurance themselves.
- Employees who are family members and also corporate officers are exempt.
- Employees who are immediate family members who also live with the employer are exempt.
- Employees working for an agricultural business employing less than 4 days of labor per year are exempt.
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In Indiana, all employees must be covered by workers’ comp insurance.
Exceptions:
- Sole proprietors, partners, and LLC members are exempt from workers’ comp insurance requirements but can choose to be covered.
- Corporate officers can choose to be exempt.
- Independent contractors’ injuries are not covered by workers’ compensation, and independent contractors in the building and construction trades must be certified with the Indiana Worker’s Compensation Board.
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In Iowa, most businesses are required to purchase workers’ comp insurance.
Exceptions:
- Sole proprietors and LLC members are not required to be covered but may choose to cover themselves.
- Exempt and non-covered employees include:
- Domestic and casual workers who make under $1,500 from their employer during the 12 consecutive months before injury
- Agricultural workers whose employer has a cash payroll of less than $2,500 in the calendar year before the injury
- Agricultural exchange labor
- Officers of a family farm corporation (including spouse, parents, brothers, sisters, children, stepchildren, and spouses of those family members)
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In Kansas, workers’ comp coverage is mandatory for all businesses with employees (including executive officers) and over $20,000 gross payroll (paid in Kansas or elsewhere). There are some exceptions, and sole proprietors’ and partnership wages paid to owners and owners’ family members are not counted toward the total payroll. Additionally, family members that are not true owners of a company or do not own 10% of the business must be included in the coverage and cannot choose to be excluded.
Exceptions:
- Sole proprietors, partners, and LLC members are exempt but can choose to be included.
- Agricultural employers and those with an annual gross payroll under $20,000 are exempt.
- Independent contractors with no employees may choose to be exempt from carrying insurance, but those with employees and a payroll exceeding $20,000 in total gross payroll must provide coverage.
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In Kentucky, all businesses with 1 or more employees are required to carry workers’ comp coverage, regardless of employee type.
Exceptions:
- Sole proprietors, partners, and LLC members are excluded from coverage but can choose to cover themselves.
- Farm workers and domestic servants in a home with fewer than 2 full-time employees are exempt.
- Employees protected by federal laws (such as railroad and maritime workers) are exempt.
- Independent contractors aren’t covered unless they have their own policy.
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In Louisiana, all businesses must carry workers comp coverage for all full-time, part-time, and contract employees.
Exceptions:
- Sole proprietors, partners, corporate officers, and LLC members are included but can choose to be excluded from coverage.
- Exemptions include dusting and spraying airplane crews, real estate brokers and agents, musicians and performers, employees covered federally, unpaid officers and board members of certain nonprofit organizations, and people whose work includes the exploration, development, production, or transportation of minerals.
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In Maine, any business with 1 or more employees must carry workers’ comp insurance. Independent contractors don’t count as employees, but if contractors employ subcontractors, subcontractors must be covered.
Exceptions:
- Employers of domestic servants, employers of casual or seasonal laborers in agriculture and aquaculture businesses (but they must have $25,000 in liability insurance and $5,000 in medical payments coverage) are exempt.
- Employers of 6 or less agriculture and (or) aquaculture employees (but they must have $100,000 in liability insurance for each full-time equivalent employee, and at least $5,000 in medical payments coverage) are exempt.
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In Maryland, every business with 1 or more employees must carry workers’ comp coverage, with a few exceptions.
Exceptions:
- Sole proprietors are excluded from requiring mandatory coverage but can choose to include themselves in their policy.
- Agricultural employers with less than 3 full-time employees or an annual payroll for full-time employers below $15,000 are exempt.
- Agricultural office workers, independent contractors on farms (other than migrant laborers), and owner-operators of large tractor-trailer vehicles are exempt.
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In Massachusetts, all businesses must carry workers’ comp insurance, including owners who are considered employees, regardless of the number of hours worked. Employees in domestic service must be covered if they work 16 or more hours per week.
Exceptions:
- Sole proprietors, partners, and LLC members are not required to carry coverage for themselves but may choose to be covered under their policy.
- Workers engaged in interstate and international commerce, salespeople working in real estate or consumer goods paid by commission, taxi drivers who lease their cabs on a fee basis not related to fares (and who are not employees under federal tax law), and people working in interstate or international commerce who are covered by federal law for compensation for injury or death are exempt.
- Employees in domestic service working less than 16 hours per week are exempt.
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In Michigan, all businesses with 1 or more employees are required to have workers’ comp insurance. Businesses with 3 or more employees at any one time, or employing 1 or more workers for 35 or more hours per week for 13 or more weeks during the preceding 52 weeks are also required to have workers’ comp insurance.
Exceptions:
- Employees of a sole proprietorship are covered by the Workers Disability Compensation Act, but the sole proprietor (the business owner) is self-employed and not considered to be an employee, and therefore not covered.
- Under certain circumstances, named partners and corporate officers who are also shareholders of small, closely-held corporations may exempt themselves from coverage.
- Certain family members of an employer may also be exempt.
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In Minnesota, all businesses are required to provide workers’ comp insurance coverage to all employees, including non-US citizens and minors.
Exceptions:
- Sole proprietors, partners, some managers of LLCs, officers of closely held corporations, and certain relatives are excluded from compulsory coverage but may choose to be included in their policy.
- Employers covered by federal liability laws are exempt.
- Family farm operations are exempt, with some restrictions.
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In Mississippi, all businesses with 5 regular employees must provide workers’ comp coverage.
Exceptions:
- Sole proprietors, partners, and corporate officers don’t count toward the employee total if they choose not to cover themselves.
- Employers with less than 5 employees or domestic or farm laborers are not required to have coverage but may choose to provide it.
- Independent contractors are usually excluded from coverage, but protection is given to employees of subcontractors.
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In Missouri, businesses with 5 or more employees must carry workers’ comp insurance. All construction businesses with 1 or more part-time, full-time, temporary, and seasonal employees are required to provide coverage. Corporate officers count toward the employee total.
Exceptions:
- Sole proprietors and partners are excluded from requiring coverage but can choose to be covered.
- Close family member-employees and members of LLCs are covered unless they opt out.
- Farm laborers, domestic servants, real estate salespeople, and commercial motor-carrier owner-operators are exempt.
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In Montana, all businesses must carry workers’ comp insurance for all employees. Businesses in the construction industry must provide coverage for all employees (both resident and nonresident) if and while they work in Montana.
Exceptions:
- Sole proprietors can exclude themselves from coverage but may choose to be included.
- Contractors don’t have to be covered under a business’ workers’ comp policy but must provide proof that they are a certified independent contractor (without proof, your business might be held responsible for their injuries).
- Domestic and household workers, casual and infrequent employees, freelancers, newspaper carriers, licensed barbers or cosmetologists who contract with cosmetology establishments, petroleum land professionals, and real estate, securities, and insurance salespersons paid on commission are all exempt.
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In Nebraska, all businesses (including contractors) with 1 or more employees (including part-time employees and minors) must have workers’ comp insurance.
Exceptions:
- Sole proprietors with no employees are not required to carry coverage but may choose to purchase it.
- Federal employees, railroad employees, most volunteers, and independent contractors are exempt.
- Household and domestic servants and some employees of agricultural operations are exempt unless the business chooses to provide coverage.
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In Nevada, all businesses with at least 1 employee must have workers’ comp insurance. Subcontractors, independent contractors, and their employees must also be covered (unless they’re independent enterprises). Construction businesses are also required to have workers’ comp insurance.
Exceptions:
- Sole proprietors without employees aren’t required to carry coverage but can choose to carry coverage for themselves.
- Household and domestic workers and agricultural or horticultural laborers are exempt.
- Employment related to interstate commerce entities not subject to Nevada’s laws, and employment covered by private disability and death benefit plans are exempt.
- Employees working in Nevada temporarily and insured in another state (not including construction) are exempt.
- Casual employees lasting less than 20 days with a labor cost of under $500 are exempt.
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In New Hampshire, all businesses with any employees (full and part-time, and family members) must carry workers’ comp insurance—even non-profit organizations.
Exceptions:
- Sole proprietors, partners, and self-employed individuals are not required to carry coverage for themselves but may choose to carry coverage.
- Businesses that use subcontractors must ensure they have coverage, or they can be held liable for any injuries to the subcontractor’s employees.
- Coverage is not mandatory but is optional for corporations or LLCs with 3 or fewer executive officers or members and no other employees (workers’ comp must be obtained once there is a fourth officer or member, though).
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In New Jersey, any businesses with 1 or more employees and any employer not covered by federal programs must carry workers’ comp insurance. This means all corporations are required to carry workers’ comp insurance, even if the only employee is the owner-officer (if the entity is an LLC and the only employee is the owner and managing member, coverage is optional). Out-of-state employers might need coverage if they enter a contract of employment in New Jersey or if any work is performed in New Jersey.
Exceptions:
- Sole proprietors with no employees are not required to carry coverage but may choose to cover themselves.
- LLCs in which the only employee is the owner and managing member are not required to have coverage.
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In New Mexico, all businesses with 3 or more employees are required to have workers’ comp insurance. Coverage may be purchased voluntarily if the business has fewer than 3 employees. Construction businesses must carry coverage regardless of their number of employees.
Exceptions:
- Sole proprietors are usually exempt from coverage requirements but may choose to cover themselves.
- Coverage is not required for domestic servants, real estate salespeople, or farm and ranch laborers.
- Executives or sole proprietors with a financial interest who are employed by a corporation or LLC can choose not to be covered, but the executive is still counted for determining the number of workers.
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In New York, virtually every employer is required to provide workers’ comp coverage for all employees, including family members, part and full-time workers, and leased employees.
Exceptions: Coverage isn’t required for sole proprietors or partners without employees, but they can purchase it for themselves.
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In North Carolina, all employers with 3 or more employees are required to carry workers’ comp insurance for all employees (including minors and undocumented workers). Any business in which 1 or more employees’ work involves the use or presence of radiation must have workers’ comp insurance.
Exceptions:
- Employers with less than 3 employees are exempt.
- Corporate officers may choose to be excluded from insurance coverage but are still counted in the employee count.
- Sole proprietors, LLC members, and partners are not automatically counted as an employee and may choose to be included.
- Agricultural employees are not required to carry workers’ comp unless they have 10 or more non-seasonal agricultural workers.
- Domestic and household servants are exempt.
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In North Dakota, all businesses must have workers’ comp insurance for all employees (including part-time, full-time, or seasonal workers) before hiring. The only workers’ comp insurance available in North Dakota is through the state-administered fund. Self-insurance and private insurance are not permitted.
Exceptions:
- Sole proprietors, partners, and corporate officers have the option to cover themselves but can choose not to do so.
- Farm and ranch laborers, household and domestic workers, verified independent contractors, and children (under age 22) of the employer are exempt.
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In Ohio, all employers with 1 or more employees must carry workers’ comp insurance. The only workers’ comp insurance available in Ohio is through the state-administered fund. Self-insurance and private insurance are not permitted.
Exceptions: Coverage is optional for sole proprietors, partners, family farm corporate officers, LLCs acting as partnerships, LLCs acting as sole proprietors, and individuals incorporated as a corporation with no employees.
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In Oklahoma, all employers must carry workers’ compensation insurance—even those with only one part-time employee.
Exceptions:
- Sole proprietors, LLCs, partners, and corporate officers can choose to cover themselves or be excluded.
- Employers with 5 or fewer total employees who are all related by blood or marriage to the employer are exempt.
- Some workers in agricultural and horticultural businesses are exempt.
- Licensed real estate brokers and most household and domestic workers are exempt.
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In Oregon, businesses with 1 or more employees must carry workers’ comp insurance.
Exception: Sole proprietors can purchase coverage for themselves but are not required to do so.
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In Pennsylvania, workers’ comp insurance is mandatory for all businesses with 1 or more employees, regardless of employee status, number of hours worked per week, or whether the employee is a spouse or a child.
Exceptions:
- Sole proprietors, partners, and corporate officers are not required to have coverage but may opt to do so.
- Licensed real estate salespeople or brokers, licensed insurance agents who work on a commission-only basis, domestic or casual laborers, outworkers, farmers with 1 employee who works less than 30 days a year or earns less than $1,200 a year, and a spouse or child of the farmer-employer under 18 years of age are exempt.
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In Rhode Island, businesses with 1 or more employees must carry workers comp coverage.
Exceptions: Sole proprietors, partners, and independent contractors are exempt. Some real estate, agricultural, and domestic or household employees may also be exempt.
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In South Carolina, businesses with 4 or more regular full-time or part-time employees are required to carry workers’ comp insurance. Employees include adults, minors, and seasonal workers.
Exceptions:
- Sole proprietors, partners, and LLC members aren’t automatically included in coverage but may choose to include themselves in their policy.
- Agricultural employees, railroad and railway companies and their employees, and employers with a total annual payroll during the previous year below $3,000 regardless of the number of employees are exempt.
- Textile hall corporations and some commission-paid real estate salespeople are exempt.
- If a subcontractor lacks coverage, their injured employees would be covered under the employer’s workers’ comp policy.
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In South Dakota, all employers must carry workers’ comp insurance, regardless of the number of employees.
Exceptions:
- Corporate officers and members of LLCs are included but may choose to be excluded.
- Sole proprietors and partners are excluded but may choose to be included.
- Domestic servants working under 20 hours per week and less than 6 weeks in any 13-week period are exempt.
- Farm and agricultural laborers, independent contractors, real estate agents, and owner-operators of trucks certified as independent contractors are exempt.
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In Tennessee, every employer in the construction or coal mining industry or trade (regardless of the number of employees, including subcontractors), and every employer with 5 or more employees must carry workers’ comp insurance. Family members and part-time employees are included when determining the number of employees. Corporate officers are also included in the count, even if excluded from coverage.
Exceptions:
- Corporate officers may exclude themselves from coverage but are still included in the employee count.
- Sole proprietors, LLC members, and partners are excluded but may choose to be included.
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In Texas, workers’ comp insurance is optional for businesses, but construction companies on contract for governmental entities are required to have coverage. Sole proprietors, partners, corporate officers, and LLC members are included under state coverage but can choose to opt out.
Employers not carrying insurance are non-subscribers and must notify employees, but could be liable in a civil suit. Workers have the legal right to file compensation claims if they think they have a genuine case, and their employer refuses to pay benefits.
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In Utah, all businesses are required to carry workers’ comp insurance for employees. Directors, officers, and LLC members are considered employees. To exclude themselves from mandatory coverage, they must do so through an insurance company. General contractors must ensure their subcontractors (including sole proprietors, partners, and corporate officers) carry coverage.
Exceptions:
- Sole proprietors, partners, and LLCs are not required to have coverage but may choose to be covered.
- Businesses excluded from mandatory coverage include employers of agricultural laborers, casual or domestic workers, and real estate brokers.
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In Vermont, all businesses with 1 or more full-time or part-time employees must carry workers’ comp insurance.
Exceptions:
- Sole proprietors and partners may purchase coverage, but are not required to do so.
- Corporate officers and LLC members are included in coverage requirements but may choose to be exempt.
- Businesses that work with independent contractors must determine in writing who’s responsible for insurance If the independent contractor lacks coverage, your business will be responsible.
- Casual employees whose work is not for the purpose of the employer’s trade or business, and employees in agriculture and farming for an employer whose payroll is less than $10,000 in a calendar year are exempt.
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In Virginia, businesses that regularly employ 3 or more employees are required to carry coverage. Employees include part-time, seasonal and temporary workers, minors, trainees, immigrants, and working family members. Coverage is optional for businesses with less than 3 employees.
Exceptions:
- Sole proprietors, partners, and LLC members are excluded from mandatory coverage but may choose to cover themselves.
- Independent contractors are not automatically eligible for workers’ comp coverage, but if the independent contractor employs 2 or more full or part-time employees, those workers are eligible.
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In Washington, all businesses with 1 or more employees must carry workers’ comp coverage.
Exceptions:
- Sole proprietors, partners, corporate officers, and LLC members are excluded from mandatory coverage but may choose to be included in their policy.
- Domestic servants are exempt unless 2 or more are employed regularly for over 40 hours a week.
- Private residential gardeners and maintenance and repair workers, family farm laborers who are minors, musicians and entertainers at specific events, and cosmetologists and barbers who rent or lease their space are exempt.
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In West Virginia, all businesses must carry coverage, with some exceptions.
Exceptions:
- Independent contractors, agricultural employers with less than 5 employees, and casual employers with less than 3 workers are exempt.
- Sole proprietors, partners, LLC members, and corporate officers are all included in coverage but can choose to be excluded.
- Domestic service employers, federally-covered employees, employers who are churches, and employers in organized professional sports are exempt, but coverage must be provided for employees who help run the business but do not participate in sporting activities.
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In Wisconsin, businesses with 3 or more full or part-time employees must carry coverage. Here are a few specifics:
- Sole proprietors, LLC members, and partners do not count toward the number of employees a business has, but corporate officers do unless there are only 2 of them and the company has no other employees.
- Farmers who employ 6 or more workers on the same day for any 20 days during the calendar year must purchase insurance no later than 10 days after the 20th day of employment.
- Out-of-state employers who have employees working in Wisconsin must have coverage, and the policy must be through an insurance company licensed in Wisconsin.
- Employers with one or more full or part-time employees that have been paid combined gross wages of $500 or more in any calendar quarter for work done at one or more locations in Wisconsin must have insurance by the 10th day of the first month of the next calendar quarter.
Exceptions:
- Employers with fewer than 3 employees are exempt.
- Sole proprietors with no employees are not required to carry coverage but may choose to cover themselves.
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In Wyoming, all business must have coverage for all employees. Employees include workers under any contract of hire (express or implied, oral, or written) and also include minors, aliens authorized to work, and aliens the employer reasonably believes to be authorized to work.
Exceptions:
- Sole proprietors and partners are excluded from coverage for themselves.
- Corporate officers and LLC members may choose to be covered.
- Casual laborers, independent contractors, spouses and dependents of an employer living in the employer’s household, individual child caregivers or babysitters whose wages are subsidized and paid by Wyoming’s department of family services, and private household and domestic employees, among others, are not considered employees and are exempt.
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