workers comp insurance

Our board is refusing to require our gardener(contracted) to have workers comp insurance. The state of California workers comp enforcement people have told the gardeners they cannot work without workkers comp insurance and asked them to leave the premises and not return until they provide proof of insurance. Since they have no money the board president paid the w/c premium and supplied a copy to the state ........

This coverage is no longer in force. We have just recently called the state w/c again.

What can we do to force this issue?

"policy" sorry

ShirleyC said: "Since they have no money the board president paid the w/c premium and supplied a copy to the state ........ "

This stuns me!

Did the board president pay the workers comp premium out of his own pocket, or did he use HOA money to pay it?!

There is no way our board would approve of footing the bill for a contractors insurance obligations!

We had one request this once when we hired a police officer as part-time security in the summer. We (and our insurance provider) required that the officer be bonded and insured, since he would be working on his own time and not under the auspices of the metro police force.

She wanted us to pay for his bonding and what have you.

We voted no and hired someone who already had it.

Very suspicious for the board president to do that!

The board president wants to continue using the same gardener..........so he paid the premium out of his own pocket.....a whole other issue. He also pays for landscaping that goes above the budget and he bought pool furniture that we have to wait until the board decides to put it out before we can use it.

Anyway issue at hand is the work comp coverage.