New Mexico Administration Suspends Workers Comp Rule

SANTA FE, NM (AP) The New Mexico Workers' Compensation Administration has temporarily suspended an interpretation of state law that required contractors without employees to purchase workers' compensation insurance.

Sole-proprietor contractors were not required to get the insurance in the past. But earlier this year, the administration determined that all contractors have to buy the insurance, regardless if they employ anyone. More...

New Mexico Administration Suspends Workers Comp Rule