WCA Advises Ag Employers to Purchase Coverage, but Requirement to Do so Remains Unclear

The New Mexico Workers' Compensation Administration this week "strongly encouraged" all farmers and ranchers to purchase comp insurance for their employees, but the question of whether they are required to do so is still very much unsettled. Two cases in the state Court of Appeals, where injured agricultural employees have sued their employers for not providing workers' compensation coverage, could provide the answer. "I feel like I say this every year – the next step will be not any more grayness, but I'm confident that there's not going to be any more g...