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Reducing Workers' Compensation Costs At Business Xyz, Jane F. Henthorn Jan 1987

Reducing Workers' Compensation Costs At Business Xyz, Jane F. Henthorn

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An educational institution, called Business XYZ for this study, experienced rising premium costs for workers' compensation insurance that climbed steadily for several years and jumped sharply in 1984 and 1985. In order to keep operating costs down, the administrative officers felt ways must be found to reduce the costs of workers' compensation for this business.

The purpose of this study was to look at the overall situation involving workers' compensation claims and costs at Business XYZ across the period of years the premiums rose so dramatically and to determine causes and solutions to the problem of high workers' compensation costs. …