diff --git a/plugin/trino-hive/src/main/java/io/trino/plugin/hive/HiveMetadata.java b/plugin/trino-hive/src/main/java/io/trino/plugin/hive/HiveMetadata.java
index e1ad521f3d2dd..98f19c524258c 100644
--- a/plugin/trino-hive/src/main/java/io/trino/plugin/hive/HiveMetadata.java
+++ b/plugin/trino-hive/src/main/java/io/trino/plugin/hive/HiveMetadata.java
@@ -2517,7 +2517,8 @@ public Optional<ConnectorNewTableLayout> getInsertLayout(ConnectorSession sessio
             }
         }
         // treat un-bucketed transactional table as having a single bucket on no columns
-        else if (hiveTableHandle.isInAcidTransaction()) {
+        // Note: we cannot use hiveTableHandle.isInAcidTransaction() here as transaction is not yet set in HiveTableHandle when getInsertLayout is called
+        else if (isFullAcidTable(table.getParameters())) {
             table = Table.builder(table)
                     .withStorage(storage -> storage.setBucketProperty(Optional.of(
                             new HiveBucketProperty(ImmutableList.of(), HiveBucketing.BucketingVersion.BUCKETING_V2, 1, ImmutableList.of()))))
diff --git a/testing/trino-product-tests/src/main/java/io/trino/tests/product/hive/TestHiveTransactionalTable.java b/testing/trino-product-tests/src/main/java/io/trino/tests/product/hive/TestHiveTransactionalTable.java
index 5272bc01bcd1f..2e5a8c419dd30 100644
--- a/testing/trino-product-tests/src/main/java/io/trino/tests/product/hive/TestHiveTransactionalTable.java
+++ b/testing/trino-product-tests/src/main/java/io/trino/tests/product/hive/TestHiveTransactionalTable.java
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 import io.trino.tests.product.hive.util.TemporaryHiveTable;
 import net.jodah.failsafe.Failsafe;
 import net.jodah.failsafe.RetryPolicy;
+import org.assertj.core.api.Assertions;
 import org.testng.SkipException;
 import org.testng.annotations.DataProvider;
 import org.testng.annotations.Test;
@@ -540,7 +541,13 @@ public void testSimpleUnpartitionedTransactionalInsert()
         withTemporaryTable("unpartitioned_transactional_insert", true, false, NONE, tableName -> {
             onTrino().executeQuery(format("CREATE TABLE %s (column1 INT, column2 BIGINT) WITH (transactional = true)", tableName));
 
-            onTrino().executeQuery(format("INSERT INTO %s VALUES (11, 100), (12, 200), (13, 300)", tableName));
+            String insertQuery = format("INSERT INTO %s VALUES (11, 100), (12, 200), (13, 300)", tableName);
+
+            // ensure that we treat ACID tables as implicitly bucketed on INSERT
+            String explainOutput = (String) onTrino().executeQuery("EXPLAIN " + insertQuery).row(0).get(0);
+            Assertions.assertThat(explainOutput).contains("Output partitioning: hive:HivePartitioningHandle{buckets=1");
+
+            onTrino().executeQuery(insertQuery);
 
             verifySelectForTrinoAndHive("SELECT * FROM " + tableName, "true", row(11, 100L), row(12, 200L), row(13, 300L));