Seismic Shift in Workers Comp Pricing: How to rethink insurance options, risk retention to keep costs under control
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Rising prices for workers compensation insurance policies and for excess insurance purchased by employers self-insuring their workers comp risks are cause for rethinking insurance options and possibly assuming more risk. Reducing insurance costs will require employers' greater attention to loss analysis, safety and claims management. And assuming more risk also could mean taking on greater responsibility for managing workers comp service suppliers. The soft market has vanished, taking with it policyholders' ability to get the price reductions and favorable policies available from 2004 through 2010.
This Business Insurance white paper outlines various solutions for workers comp buyers to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of different program structures. View a sample.
