Workers' Compensation Penalties Explained

Failure to maintain workers’ compensation coverage can result in:

• A stop order prohibiting you from using employee labor, to take effect immediately upon being served with the order.
• Liability for up to 10 days’ wages for an employee’s time lost due to the stop order.
• Liability for employee benefits, as if you had been covered.
• A penalty of $1,500 per employee employed at the time the stop order is issued and served, as an additional penalty for being uninsured.¹
• Other penalties.