Louisiana § 22:1742 Definitions

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§ 22:1742 — Definitions

Louisiana § 22:1742

Title 22Insurance

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La. Stat. Ann. § 22:1742 (2026).

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As used in this Part, the following terms shall have the following definitions:

(1)"Client" means an employer who obtains services or all or a majority of its work force or labor from a professional employer organization.

(2)"Controlling person" means either one of the following:

(a)An officer or director of a corporation, a shareholder holding ten percent or more of the voting stock of a corporation, a general partner of a partnership, or a manager of a limited liability company.

(b)An individual who possesses, directly or indirectly, the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of a person or entity through the ownership of voting stock by written contract.

(3)"Experience rating modification" or "EMOD" means a statistical procedure approved by the commiss

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As used in this Part, the following terms shall have the following definitions:
(1) "Client" means an employer who obtains services or all or a majority of its work force or labor from a professional employer organization.
(2) "Controlling person" means either one of the following:
(a) An officer or director of a corporation, a shareholder holding ten percent or more of the voting stock of a corporation, a general partner of a partnership, or a manager of a limited liability company.
(b) An individual who possesses, directly or indirectly, the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of a person or entity through the ownership of voting stock by written contract.
(3) "Experience rating modification" or "EMOD" means a statistical procedure approved by the commissioner of insurance, as provided for in R.S. 22:1451 et seq., for use in the calculation of a premium rate based on actual claims and expense experience.
(4) "Independent contractor" means a person who, exercising an independent employment or engaging in an independent business enterprise, contracts to do a piece of work according to his own methods, and without being subject to the control of the person with whom he has contracted, except as to the result of the work, or is otherwise a person who is so defined under R.S. 23:1021(6) or R.S. 23:1472(12)(E).
(5) "Person" means an individual, association, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, or other entity.
(6) "Professional Employer Organization" or "PEO" means any person that offers professional employer services pursuant to a professional employer services agreement with a client, including but not limited to administrative services organizations and employee leasing organizations that provide services pursuant to a PEO agreement.
(7) "Professional employer services agreement" or "PEO Services Agreement" means an agreement between a professional employer organization and a client pursuant to which the PEO assumes the status of employer with respect to a substantial part of a client's workforce and undertakes responsibilities specified in the agreement with respect to those employees covered by the agreement.
(8) "Staffing service" means any person, other than a professional employer organization, that hires its own employees and assigns them to a client to support or supplement the client's workforce, and includes temporary staffing services and leasing companies that supply employees to clients in special work situations such as employee absences, temporary skill shortages, seasonal workloads, and special assignments and projects.