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Broker Rolls Back Workers' Comp Advice for Relief Veterinarians

They aren’t saying they goofed, but the insurance broker for the American Veterinary Medical Association’s Professional Liability Insurance Trust plans to “clarify” its advice about relief veterinarians and workers' compensation insurance.

By David DeKok | Updated on April 15, 2011

They aren’t saying they goofed, but the insurance broker for the American Veterinary Medical Association’s Professional Liability Insurance Trust (AVMA PLIT) plans to “clarify” advice that came out in 2009, stating that relief veterinarians needed workers’ compensation insurance even though most are independent contractors.

Relief veterinarians are hired to work weekends, holidays and other periods when a member of a veterinary practice or animal hospital cannot be present. The statement by the PLIT’s longtime broker Hub International Midwest, Ltd., that relief veterinarians should be covered by workers’ compensation insurance created confusion among practitioners. Critics of the advice argued that it ran contrary to the distinction and tax status of many relief veterinarians as independent contractors, in addition to forcing the practice owners hiring them to pay increased insurance premiums.

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