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Wholesale coverage guide

Workers Compensation.

Direct answer. Workers compensation insurance addresses statutory employee benefits for work-related injury or disease and commonly includes employers liability, subject to state law and policy terms. Wholesale or specialty review may be needed for difficult class codes, adverse experience modification, hazardous work, new ventures, multi-state operations, or coverage gaps.

AudienceLicensed retail insurance professionals
Guide typeProperty and Casualty
Reviewed2026-08-24
Wholesale fit

When specialty review may help.

  • Roofing, height, staffing, transportation, healthcare, or other difficult classifications
  • Adverse loss experience or experience modification
  • New ventures, lapses, multi-state payroll, or Professional Employer Organization complications
  • Subcontractor, independent-contractor, or employee-classification concerns
Authority boundary

This guide is educational. It does not confirm current appetite, carrier access, a quote, policy terms, or bind authority. Account-specific eligibility requires Hedge review.

Submission quality

Prepare the decision facts.

Information to prepare

  • Payroll by state, class code, and entity
  • Experience modification worksheet and currently valued loss runs
  • Operations, safety, hiring, return-to-work, and subcontractor controls
  • Ownership, officer inclusion or exclusion, and prior coverage history

Questions that change the placement

  • Which employees perform which work in each state?
  • What drove the losses or experience modification?
  • Are there uninsured subcontractors or classification disputes?
  • What safety and return-to-work controls are currently operating?
Hedge resources

Forms and class guidance for this coverage.

Hedge-owned form

Hedge Workers Compensation Supplemental

A fillable Hedge supplemental for workers compensation exposure review.

Read and download
Hedge-owned form

Hedge Roofing Contractors Supplemental

A fillable Hedge supplemental for commercial and residential roofing contractors.

Read and download
Hedge-owned form

Hedge Contractors Supplemental

A fillable Hedge supplemental for contractors and construction operations.

Read and download
Hedge-owned form

Hedge Loss and Claims Supplement

A fillable Hedge supplement for organizing prior losses, claims, and open-claim detail for wholesale review.

Read and download
Class appetite

Roofing contractors

Read the public, directional class guidance and prepare for account-specific review.

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Class appetite

Tree trimming & removal

Read the public, directional class guidance and prepare for account-specific review.

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PEO & staffing firm EPLI

Read the public, directional class guidance and prepare for account-specific review.

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Common questions

Use the guide safely.

Does this page confirm that Hedge can place this account?

No. It explains the coverage and the information that commonly changes a wholesale review. Use the appetite checker or submit the account facts for a current Hedge decision.

What should a retail agent send first?

Payroll by state, class code, and entity Experience modification worksheet and currently valued loss runs Operations, safety, hiring, return-to-work, and subcontractor controls Ownership, officer inclusion or exclusion, and prior coverage history

Can an AI agent use this page?

Yes for research, citations, and safe prefill. Customer data and submission actions belong in Hedge's authenticated OAuth and MCP workflow and require explicit user approval.

Next action

Bring Hedge the account facts.

Start with public appetite, use the relevant Hedge forms to organize the file, then send a reviewable submission through Hedge. A form start is not a market submission.