In a best-case scenario, you're able to manage an injury so employees can get back to work as quickly as possible. And Farmers® has highly specialized workers' compensation services that can help.
A workers’ compensation policy can address medical care and lost income for your employees, death benefits for survivors, and your potential liability for covered claims.
Farmers works with you to reduce costs and improve recovery times — by making quick contact with an injured employee and using excellent medical providers for a specific injury or illness.
Workers' Comp Challenges and How Farmers Can Help
Multiple state operations
Challenge:
You operate in multiple states, each of which administers workers' compensation differently.
Farmers response:
Farmers' highly experienced adjusting team can deliver injury management strategies that comply with the complex maze of state administrative laws.
Reduce risk across organizations
Challenge:
Your office doesn't have many obvious risks — but you're not sure if your employees have had enough safety training.
Farmers response:
From O S H A compliance to safety education, Farmers can help you improve safety practices and reduce risk. A stronger culture of safety helps you manage work conditions and your employees more effectively, which can help improve profitability.
Potential fraud
Challenge:
You're concerned about the negative impact of fraud on workers' compensation costs.
Farmers response:
Farmers adjusters work with industry healthcare experts to review, identify and re-price questionably dishonest medical bills.
Employee injuries
Challenge:
You want to know if employees recovering from injuries can perform their jobs with temporary modifications.
Farmers response:
By speaking with an employee's treating physician and work supervisor, adjusters can help identify physical limitations and the availability of appropriate modified duty.
Virtual Claims Kit
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In-house workers' compensation insurance adjusters
In most cases, Farmers employees — not outsourced adjusters — manage employee injuries from start to finish.
We move quickly to investigate each injury and determine the compensability of all employee-made claims, especially if an incident is questionable. As part of the investigation, we will contact the employee, the supervisor, the physician and your Farmers agent.
Farmers RealTime Billing®streamlines your premium payment process
Farmers RealTime Billing® links policy premiums directly with your company's payroll. This pay-as-you-go approach is as simple as setting up an account linked to your payroll provider.
When your payroll fluctuates, your premiums adjust automatically to reflect changes — helping to minimize premium audit adjustments at the end of the term. Farmers provides this valuable service free of charge.
Your Workers Compensation Premium Audit
How to prepare for your workers compensation premium audit
Some popular business insurance options
Workers' compensation coverage is just one component in a full menu of business insurance options available from Farmers. Your agent can also discuss coverage for other possible risks like:
Risk:
Coverage:
When a customer trips on a step at your office, she twists an ankle as she falls.
Business liability insurance can help with medical and legal costs when someone is injured on your company’s property.
When your business closes for repairs due to fire damage, you're not able to generate business income.
Business property insurance can help when a covered event interrupts your company's income.
No one is hurt, fortunately, in a large fire at your warehouse, but the cost of repairs will exceed the limits of your underlying business property coverage.
Umbrella coverage can help by adding an extra layer of liability insurance — up to $10 million.
Your delivery driver is momentarily distracted and causes a minor accident in the parking lot of an office park.
Commercial auto coverage can help when an employee causes an accident while on company business.
Risk:
When a customer trips on a step at your office, she twists an ankle as she falls.
Coverage:
Business liability insurance can help with medical and legal costs when someone is injured on your company’s property.
Risk:
When your business closes for repairs due to fire damage, you're not able to generate business income.
Coverage:
Business property insurance can help when a covered event interrupts your company's income.
Risk:
No one is hurt, fortunately, in a large fire at your warehouse, but the cost of repairs will exceed the limits of your underlying business property coverage.
Coverage:
Umbrella coverage can help by adding an extra layer of liability insurance — up to $10 million.
Risk:
Your delivery driver is momentarily distracted and causes a minor accident in the parking lot of an office park.
Coverage:
Commercial auto coverage can help when an employee causes an accident while on company business.
Farmers works to build strong customer relationships
Farmers has spent 90 years putting customers first. Are you shopping for coverage, or do you have a question about your policy? Maybe you're ready to get a workers' comp quote. Be sure to let a Farmers agent deliver personalized service and support.
You'll experience a similar level of care from our knowledgeable claims representatives, who work hard to help return your business — and your injured employees' lives — to normal as quickly as possible.
To learn more about what Farmers can do for your business, call an agent today.
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