Occupational accident for trucking companies

Published 2026-06-05 · Updated 2026-06-11 · by Brokly

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Accident benefits for owner-operators when workers' comp doesn't cover them.

What it covers for trucking companies

An accident policy paying medical, disability, and death benefits to independent owner-operators who sit outside employee workers' comp. Some states bake it into the law: Kansas treats a leased single-truck owner-operator as a non-employee of the motor carrier only if covered by an occupational accident insurance policy. Trucking's leased owner-operator model can leave the person actually driving outside the carrier's workers' comp — this is the trade's standard fill for that gap.

Sources: Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes — K.S.A. 44-503c (retrieved 2026-06-06)

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