New Material Includes Sample Transitional Duty Jobs for Each Industry October 18, 2010 –Amaxx’s Workers Comp Cost Containment Resource Center for Employers, at LowerWC.com, now provides workers’ compensation insurance-related information for 29 industry groups. The industries covered are: agriculture, amusement parks, banks, casinos, construction, commercial fishing, logging and sawmills, oil and gas exploration, longshore and …
Archives for October 2010
Workers’ Compensation Expert Rebecca Shafer Cited by Risk & Insurance Magazine
Conflict Between Employers and Claims Administrators Can Drastically Increase Workers’ Comp Costs October 7, 2010 –We were quoted in a recent article by Peter Rousmaniere in Risk & Insurance, “When Employers and Claims Staffs Clash,” about conflict between employers and their WC claims staff, whether internal employees or an outside third-party administrator (TPA.) The focus …
“Pay As You Go” Workers’ Compensation Programs
Weekly or Monthly Payment Plans for Workers Comp The payment of a large annual lump sum or even quarterly payments for workers’ compensation insurance coverage can be an expense that is difficult to budget for. The cost of buying work comp coverage is based on an estimate of annual payroll at the inception of the …