Chapter 296-17 - General reporting rules, audit and recordkeeping, rates and rating system for Washington workers' compensation insurance

  1. § 296-17-31001 - Introduction
  2. § 296-17-31002 - General rule definitions
  3. § 296-17-31003 - No-fault insurance
  4. § 296-17-31004 - Coverage requirements
  5. § 296-17-31005 - Employer/employee relationship
  6. § 296-17-31006 - Application process
  7. § 296-17-31007 - Owner/officer coverage and coverage for exempt employments
  8. § 296-17-31008 - Notification requirements
  9. § 296-17-31009 - Reciprocal agreements
  10. § 296-17-31010 - Premium cost
  11. § 296-17-31011 - Classification system and plan
  12. § 296-17-31012 - Classification assignment
  13. § 296-17-31013 - Construction
  14. § 296-17-31014 - Farming and agriculture
  15. § 296-17-31015 - General inclusions
  16. § 296-17-31016 - Classification by analogy
  17. § 296-17-31017 - Multiple classifications
  18. § 296-17-310171 - How to report hours for employees supporting multiple business operations (Repealed)
  19. § 296-17-31018 - Exception classifications
  20. § 296-17-31019 - Standard exception classification describes business
  21. § 296-17-31021 - Units of exposure
  22. § 296-17-31022 - Reporting exception classification employees
  23. § 296-17-31023 - Premium reporting How often will I need to report and pay premiums?
  24. § 296-17-31024 - Classification premium rates
  25. § 296-17-31025 - Change in business operations
  26. § 296-17-31026 - Reporting multiple business operations
  27. § 296-17-31027 - Temporary staffing services
  28. § 296-17-31028 - Closing accounts What are my responsibilities when I close my business, or when I no longer have employees?
  29. § 296-17-31029 - Insurance principles
  30. § 296-17-31030 - Successorship and other transfers of ownership
  31. § 296-17-352 - Audits
  32. § 296-17-35201 - Recordkeeping and retention
  33. § 296-17-35203 - Special reporting instruction
  34. § 296-17-35204 - Penalty assessments for employers who fail to register under Title 51 RCW
  35. § 296-17-35205 - Special reporting for taxi, for-hire, limousine drivers or entities; and transportation network companies
  36. § 296-17-850 - Experience rating plan - Eligibility and experience period
  37. § 296-17-855 - Experience modification
  38. § 296-17-860 - Transition adjustment
  39. § 296-17-865 - Experience modification limitations
  40. § 296-17-86507 - [Repealed]
  41. § 296-17-870 - Evaluation of actual losses
  42. § 296-17-871 - Director's discretion for incurred losses on claims with vocational plans
  43. § 296-17-873 - Responsibility for past experience
  44. § 296-17-87301 - Definitions
  45. § 296-17-87304 - Change in ownership with an accompanying change in business activities
  46. § 296-17-87305 - Initial recalculation of experience factor
  47. § 296-17-87306 - Combination of entities
  48. § 296-17-875 - Table I
  49. § 296-17-880 - Table II
  50. § 296-17-885 - Table III
  51. § 296-17-890 - Table IV
  52. § 296-17-895 - Industrial insurance accident fund base rates, stay at work and medical aid base rates by class of industry
  53. § 296-17-89502 - Industrial insurance accident fund, stay at work, medical aid and supplemental pension rates by class of industry for nonhourly rated classifications
  54. § 296-17-89504 - Horse racing industry industrial insur ance, accident fund, medical aid fund, stay at work and supplemental pension by class (Repealed)
  55. § 296-17-89505 - 2007 Rate holiday dividend (Repealed)
  56. § 296-17-89506 - Farm internship program industrial insurance, accident fund, stay at work fund, medical aid fund, and supplemental pension by class (Repealed)
  57. § 296-17-89507 - Horse racing rates
  58. § 296-17-89508 - Farm internship program industrial insurance, accident fund, stay at work fund, medical aid fund, and supplemental pension by class
  59. § 296-17-89509 - [Repealed]
  60. § 296-17-900 - Premium discounts
  61. § 296-17-901 - [Effective until 10/1/2023] Risk classification hazard group table
  62. § 296-17-901 - [Effective 10/1/2023] Risk classification hazard group table, version 2
  63. § 296-17-905 - Dividends
  64. § 296-17-907 - Dividend declarations and distributions
  65. § 296-17-920 - Assessment for supplemental pension fund
  66. § 296-17-925 - Record-keeping requirements for student volunteers and/or unpaid students
  67. § 296-17-930 - Volunteers
  68. § 296-17-935 - Options for reporting qualifying volunteers, including student volunteers and unpaid students
  69. § 296-17-940 - Logger safety initiative

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