What does workers' compensation insurance cover?
Workers’ compensation insurance helps provide medical, rehabilitation, and disability benefits for exterminators and pest control professionals who become injured as a direct result of their job. Workers’ comp may also pay death benefits to an employee’s dependents if the exterminating worker is killed in a work-related incident.
In addition to helping exterminators and their families, workers’ compensation insurance can also help protect exterminating business owners. Workers’ compensation helps protect exterminating and pest control businesses from liability for employees’ workplace injuries, and it helps keep employers from having to pay directly out of pocket for those injuries. This coverage may reduce the risk of a significant financial loss if an exterminating employee is harmed while performing work duties.
Depending on the laws in your state, to be considered compensable and therefore eligible for workers’ compensation, exterminating injuries must:
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have happened to an exterminating employee (not a vendor or independent contractor),
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be the result of an exterminating workplace injury or illness during employment, and
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cause impairment and/or lost wages.
What are relevant types of class codes?
When you’re ready to start your 3-minute quote, you’ll need to know your exterminating or pest control business’s class code.
A class code is assigned by the National Council of Compensation Insurance (NCCI) or by state agencies—and is created based on the activities and risk level the work requires.
There are many different workers’ comp class codes within the exterminating and pest control industry. Below is one of the most common class codes used in the industry.
9014 – Exterminator and termite control
