Exclusion
A statutory or approved status under which a specified person or category is outside mandatory workers' compensation coverage.
In owner-coverage research, an exclusion means that a person or category is not treated as a covered employee for a particular statutory purpose. Some exclusions operate automatically; others require an application, declaration, carrier endorsement, or agency approval.
Pennsylvania publishes categories that may be excluded from its coverage requirement, including certain casual, domestic, agricultural, owner, and executive-officer situations. Other states organize the same questions differently, so “excluded” and “filed an exemption” are not interchangeable terms.
Where this definition comes from
Glossary entries are anchored to a state agency, statute, board, commission, or recognized workers' compensation authority rather than a generalized summary.
More terms
- Additional insured
- Agricultural/farm labor exclusion
- Assigned risk pool / residual market
- Casual employment
- CE-200 (New York)
- Certificate holder
- Certificate of election
- Certificate of insurance (COI)
- Civil penalty (uninsured employer)
- Class code
- Competitive state fund
- Construction vs non-construction classification