Opinion No.

Honorable Ed Gilbert State Representative P. O. Box 633 Mountain Home, AR 72853

Dear Representative Gilbert:

We are writing in response to your December 26, 1986 letter, which contained four questions concerning current workers' compensation laws. Your questions were as follows:

1. Is a contractor or his workers' compensation insurer liable for injury sustained by a subcontractor while working for the contractor if the subcontractor carries workers' compensation insurance on his employees but not on himself?

2. If the subcontractor does not carry workers' compensation coverage on his employees,…