Court Ruling, New Forms: LLC Members Now Covered Unless They Opt Out

Form follows function, as the adage goes. Or, in this case, forms follow a state Supreme Court ruling. Three months after the Connecticut high court held that a 2003 memo erroneously claimed sole members of limited liability corporations had to opt in to comp coverage, the Workers' Compensation Commission revised a pair of forms for LLC members to opt out. Commission Chairman Stephen Morelli made the announcement last week in a memo that supersedes his predecessor's instructions on LLCs. “In light of the recent Supreme Court decision in Gould vs. Stamford ... holding that ...