State cracks down on employers without proper insurance

RALEIGH, NC (AP) — The commission responsible for enforcing workers’ compensation laws has cracked down in the last year on employers who don’t carry proper insurance, collecting $1 million in civil fines from uninsured companies.

The News & Observer of Raleigh reports (http://bit.ly/1TKnkw1 ) that the state Industrial Commission also charged 100 employers with misdemeanors for willingly going without coverage.

State law requires any employer with three or more employees to provide workers’ compensation insurance at no cost to the workers.

The News & Observer reported in April 2012 that as many as 30,000 employers in North Carolina required to purchase workers’ compensation had not. The following year, the state auditor reported the commission had done nothing to intervene as more than 11,000 businesses in 2012 canceled policies or let them lapse.

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Information from: The News & Observer, http://www.newsobserver.com

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