Chevalier v. Bossier

hSAUNDERS, Judge.

This case presents the question of whether an employer who fails to provide workers’ compensation insurance in accordance with this state’s laws may be absolved for its failure to do so solely on the basis that the employee, at his own expense, was illegally required to purchase insurance. We answer the question negatively, and on that basis reverse in part the conclusions of the hearing officer. An employer’s requirement that its employee pay for. his own workers’ compensation insurance does not reheve the employer of its legal obligation to do so.

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Defendant-appellee,…