Thursday, March 19, 2009

Lower Your Workers Compensation Rates by Maximizing Your Experience Modification Rate

By Randy Russell CPA

Workers Compensation Rates and claims seem to be rising with each elapsing day and it is incontestable the cost that this can play on any business. In today's fast paced world it is of maximum importance that you take every precaution and step essential to defending your business. Maximizing your power to trim back the costs of workers compensation is becoming a requirement if you want to succeed in today's economic system. Your company's Experience Modification Rate is a way to equate and analyze the claims made by your employees to the claims made by other businesses that are alike in size and capital.

Comprehending your Experience Modification Rate can be beneficial in your company's ability to maximize profit and lower your workers compensation rates. Monitoring this rate allows you to lower the cost of your workers compensation insurance premiums that you are required to pay and makes your business a safer and better place for your employees. Every day it seems that new companies are refusing to hire or work with businesses that do not control or monitor their Experience Modification Rate.

On top of this, it is an all too common truth that over 75 percent of companies today are being overcharged or are overpaying on their worker's compensation insurance rates. Maximizing your Experience Modification Rating is one of the best ways to quickly increase the profitability of your company, which is why it is so important to take the necessary action now.

There is a high chance that you have been overpaying on your premiums for years and have had no idea. Insurance companies will not tell you if you are overpaying. Nor will they want to help you locate their mistakes or find ways to lower your premium.

This is where we come in. We can provide a full worker's compensation audit with no initial cost attached at all. Allow us to perform an audit for you, and if we don't lower your premiums, it won't cost you a single dime. We are experts in managing, calculating and finding mistakes that insurance companies have made in regards to your premium.

Why would you continue overpaying if you didn't need to? Lowering your experience modification rating and recovering overpaid premiums should be a priority for you in this economy. - 15246

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