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... name that makes it all but impossible to identify an agency. The agent is responsible for all promotion. Using this type of site is much easier than writing your own-but you must have Internet knowledge to make it work satisfactorily. Use a Web publishing company. This is the easiest way-and the most costly. Web companies will set up a professional, custom site, provide you with E-mail accounts, and secure your domain address. All this, plus any changes, comes with maintenance and server costs that may seem prohibitive over an extended period of time. With a professional published site, you can have almost anything you want-but remember, you're selling insurance! Your publishers should know your industry. An insurance Web site needs a set-up much different from one that uses animation and graphics to sell hot sauce. Those flashy-but slower loading-techniques won't improve your site. Internet users who want information quickly won't waste their time waiting-they'll jump to another site. You need to make your point the instant you have the customer's attention. Get listed on an insurance-exclusive service. You might consider an insurance-exclusive service company, such as InsuranceQuote.Net. These offer low-cost, template-based insurance sites built for fast access and interactive quoting. Agency information is individually customized and listed by state, and-most important!- site promotion is part of the service. Most agencies, regardless of size or location, will generally find using insurance-exclusive service companies to be cost effective and productive. The Internet isn't a fad or a toy-it's serious business, and its customers are here. Agencies that plan to prosper in the 21st century need to move onto ...

... name that makes it all but impossible to identify an agency. The agent is responsible for all promotion. Using this type of site is much easier than writing your own-but you must have Internet knowledge to make it work satisfactorily. Use a Web publishing company. This is the easiest way-and the most costly. Web companies will set up a professional, custom site, provide you with E-mail accounts, and secure your domain address. All this, plus any changes, comes with maintenance and server costs that may seem prohibitive over an extended period of time. With a professional published site, you can have almost anything you want-but remember, you're selling insurance! Your publishers should know your industry. An insurance Web site needs a set-up much different from one that uses animation and graphics to sell hot sauce. Those flashy-but slower loading-techniques won't improve your site. Internet users who want information quickly won't waste their time waiting-they'll jump to another site. You need to make your point the instant you have the customer's attention. Get listed on an insurance-exclusive service. You might consider an insurance-exclusive service company, such as InsuranceQuote.Net. These offer low-cost, template-based insurance sites built for fast access and interactive quoting. Agency information is individually customized and listed by state, and-most important!- site promotion is part of the service. Most agencies, regardless of size or location, will generally find using insurance-exclusive service companies to be cost effective and productive. The Internet isn't a fad or a toy-it's serious business, and its customers are here. Agencies that plan to prosper in the 21st century need to move onto ...

... name that makes it all but impossible to identify an agency. The agent is responsible for all promotion. Using this type of site is much easier than writing your own-but you must have Internet knowledge to make it work satisfactorily. Use a Web publishing company. This is the easiest way-and the most costly. Web companies will set up a professional, custom site, provide you with E-mail accounts, and secure your domain address. All this, plus any changes, comes with maintenance and server costs that may seem prohibitive over an extended period of time. With a professional published site, you can have almost anything you want-but remember, you're selling insurance! Your publishers should know your industry. An insurance Web site needs a set-up much different from one that uses animation and graphics to sell hot sauce. Those flashy-but slower loading-techniques won't improve your site. Internet users who want information quickly won't waste their time waiting-they'll jump to another site. You need to make your point the instant you have the customer's attention. Get listed on an insurance-exclusive service. You might consider an insurance-exclusive service company, such as InsuranceQuote.Net. These offer low-cost, template-based insurance sites built for fast access and interactive quoting. Agency information is individually customized and listed by state, and-most important!- site promotion is part of the service. Most agencies, regardless of size or location, will generally find using insurance-exclusive service companies to be cost effective and productive. The Internet isn't a fad or a toy-it's serious business, and its customers are here. Agencies that plan to prosper in the 21st century need to move onto ...

... name that makes it all but impossible to identify an agency. The agent is responsible for all promotion. Using this type of site is much easier than writing your own-but you must have Internet knowledge to make it work satisfactorily. Use a Web publishing company. This is the easiest way-and the most costly. Web companies will set up a professional, custom site, provide you with E-mail accounts, and secure your domain address. All this, plus any changes, comes with maintenance and server costs that may seem prohibitive over an extended period of time. With a professional published site, you can have almost anything you want-but remember, you're selling insurance! Your publishers should know your industry. An insurance Web site needs a set-up much different from one that uses animation and graphics to sell hot sauce. Those flashy-but slower loading-techniques won't improve your site. Internet users who want information quickly won't waste their time waiting-they'll jump to another site. You need to make your point the instant you have the customer's attention. Get listed on an insurance-exclusive service. You might consider an insurance-exclusive service company, such as InsuranceQuote.Net. These offer low-cost, template-based insurance sites built for fast access and interactive quoting. Agency information is individually customized and listed by state, and-most important!- site promotion is part of the service. Most agencies, regardless of size or location, will generally find using insurance-exclusive service companies to be cost effective and productive. The Internet isn't a fad or a toy-it's serious business, and its customers are here. Agencies that plan to prosper in the 21st century need to move onto ...

... . Since the employer had no Workers Compensation coverage, benefits could not be collected. The claimant could expect Workers Comp benefits from the general contractor, who carried insurance. The general contractor had a responsibility to ensure that subcontractors could pay, through insurance or otherwise, the Workers Comp benefits required by law. Since the contractor was liable as a statutory employer, it was not responsible for paying penalties resulting from the failure of the subcontractor to maintain the required insurance. It was responsible only for paying Workers Compensation benefits. For an independent contractor to recover damages, work must fall within the scope of its normal business. An independent contractor may recover Workers Compensation benefits from a statutory employer, if the claimant can prove that his or her work falls within the statutory employer's normal course of business. SAUCE FOR THE GANDER Statutory employer status works both ways. Since a statutory employer may be potentially liable for the payment of Workers Comp benefits, it's entitled to assert the exclusive remedy shield provided by Workers Compensation laws against any subsequent tort action. This is true even if the statutory employer does not actually make a compensation payment to the claimant. (The Workers Comp carrier and the employer are indistinguishable in this type of case.) The claimant seeking compensation benefits from a statutory employer is required to prove this status. Similarly, a company wishing to obtain immunity from tort liability under the exclusive remedy statute must prove statutory employer status. CONSTRUCTION AND TRANSPORTATION Statutory employer situations often arise in the construction industry. For example, a general contractor is building new homes. Since it has two officers, ...

... no Workers' Compensation coverage, benefits could not be collected. The claimant could expect Workers' Comp benefits from the general contractor, who carried insurance. The general contractor had a responsibility to ensure that subcontractors could pay, through insurance or otherwise, the Workers' Comp benefits required by law. Since the contractor was liable as a statutory employer, it was not responsible for paying penalties resulting from the failure of the subcontractor to maintain the required insurance. It was responsible only for paying Workers' Compensation benefits. For an independent contractor to recover damages, work must fall within the scope of its normal business. An independent contractor may recover Workers' Compensation benefits from a statutory employer, if the claimant can prove that his or her work falls within the statutory employer's normal course of business. SAUCE FOR THE GANDER Statutory employer status works both ways. Since a statutory employer may be potentially liable for the payment of Workers' Comp benefits, it's entitled to assert the exclusive remedy shield provided by Workers' Compensation laws against any subsequent tort action. This is true even if the statutory employer does not actually make a compensation payment to the claimant. (The Workers' Comp carrier and the employer are indistinguishable in this type of case.) The claimant seeking compensation benefits from a statutory employer is required to prove this status. Similarly, a company wishing to obtain immunity from tort liability under the exclusive remedy statute must prove statutory employer status. CONSTRUCTION AND TRANSPORTATION Statutory employer situations often arise in the construction industry. For example, a general contractor is building new homes. Since it has ...

... name that makes it all but impossible to identify an agency. The agent is responsible for all promotion. Using this type of site is much easier than writing your own-but you must have Internet knowledge to make it work satisfactorily. Use a Web publishing company. This is the easiest way-and the most costly. Web companies will set up a professional, custom site, provide you with E-mail accounts, and secure your domain address. All this, plus any changes, comes with maintenance and server costs that may seem prohibitive over an extended period of time. With a professional published site, you can have almost anything you want-but remember, you're selling insurance! Your publishers should know your industry. An insurance Web site needs a set-up much different from one that uses animation and graphics to sell hot sauce. Those flashy-but slower loading-techniques won't improve your site. Internet users who want information quickly won't waste their time waiting-they'll jump to another site. You need to make your point the instant you have the customer's attention. Get listed on an insurance-exclusive service. You might consider an insurance-exclusive service company, such as InsuranceQuote.Net. These offer low-cost, template-based insurance sites built for fast access and interactive quoting. Agency information is individually customized and listed by state, and-most important!- site promotion is part of the service. Most agencies, regardless of size or location, will generally find using insurance-exclusive service companies to be cost effective and productive. The Internet isn't a fad or a toy-it's serious business, and its customers are here. Agencies that plan to prosper in the 21st century need to move onto ...