Lower Your Experience Mod By Recovering Your Claims Costs

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Philip was driving to pick up a tool rental for a construction job his company was working on when another driver rear ended his car causing Philip to sustain serious back injuries. Ultimately the workers compensation insurance policy purchased…

The Correlation Between Business Travel & Workers Compensation Claims

Lets get straight to the facts: business travel often causes travel-induced health problems that can eventually lead to workers' compensation claims. You don’t want workers' compensation claims. The following are the three biggest…

Why Buying Workers Compensation Insurance Through Your Payroll Provider is a Bad Idea

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  We have all seen the solicitations from ADP, PayChex and the like relating to linking your workers' compensation insurance to your payroll system. While I do not dispute the immediate benefit of such an arrangement, in most instances…

With Workers Compensation Insurance Rates Heading Higher, Workers Compensation Cost Containment Moves Front & Center

In a recently published survey by Zywave, a leading insurance industry publisher, 59% of the 3,500 employers who responded to the survey ending February 24th 2012  said they were very concerned about workers compensation insurance rates.   There…

4 Common Workers' Compensation Mistakes

It's not until you are hit with a few unexpected workers' compensation mistakes you really start thinking about how to improve them. When rates are low, many people think "out of sight, out of mind." Most employers look at Workers' Compensation…

Preparing for Workers’ Compensation Audits

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Are you organized for your workers compensation audits and do you know what they’re all about? It’s no secret that the word ‘audit’ tends to scare people, but as long as you have all the paperwork relating to whatever…

Being Prepared for Workers Compensation Audits

The idea of audits of any kind may strike fear into business owners but this needn’t be the case. As long as you maintain accurate records and have the required information to hand, you shouldn’t experience any major difficulties. In this…

Record Keeping for Workers Compensation Audits

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As a business owner, you know that you may experience regular auditing – some audits you will initiate internally, to monitor your business progress. Others may be initiated by outside entities. The key to getting through an audit with the…

Preparing for a Workers Comp Audit

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What exactly is an audit? The dictionary says it is a thorough examination or check – an in-depth examination of every part of a process. That applies whether you’re talking about accounting audits or workers compensation audits. You usually…