Opinion No. (1998)

Dear Representative, Dunegan

¶ 0 This office has received your request for an Attorney General Opinion in which you have asked, in effect, the following question:

When an owner-employee owns over ten percent (10%) of the shares in a corporation which operates as a subcontractor for another corporation in which he or she also owns shares, is the owner-employee required to obtain workers' compensation insurance on himself? If not so required, is the owner-employee required to provide proof of his or her exemption from coverage?

¶ 1 Employment is covered by the Workers' Compensation Act, Title 85…