Workers comp insurance
This is a commercial insurance that is required for all businesses to carry in each state of the nation. It helps protect both the business owner and each employee in the case of accidental injury, illness or disease.
Workers comp insurance helps protect your employees at any time they are providing work and services for you. Regardless of whether they are on or off of your business premises.
This insurance covers health and medical bills for employees that are injured on the job. It protects you as an employer from being sued in the event of an injury or sickness. Protection specifics and amounts can vary slightly from one state to another. And, the types of illnesses or disease that are covered depend upon whether the sickness is relevant to your business or your employee’s job duties.
Workers compensation insurance is designed to help your employees. Depending on your business insurance level coverage varies. Workers comp covers a variety of injury and accident related expenses.
If an employee is injured at the workplace or a job site and needs to be transported to the hospital by ambulance. Workers compensation insurance covers the cost of the ambulance transportation. Workers comp also pays the employee’s medical, doctor and hospital bills.
Reimbursement for Workers Comp
Workers comp may reimburse the injured employee for wages they lose if they are unable to work due to a recovery period. An auto mechanic may break his arm because a hoist chain snaps while he is working. His doctor may require him to rest without work or stress to the arm for four weeks. Workers compensation will provide the employee with the lost wages during that rest and recovery period.
If one of your employee’s becomes temporarily or permanently disabled due to an accident or injury caused by the job, you are covered. Workers comp covers them during their disability period.
Some residential contracting companies and your employees conduct their work at your customer’s homes. Workers compensation coverage protects you and your employees while they are at the job site. If one of your construction workers falls through a weak spot in the roof of a building you are covered. Your workers comp insurance coverage will take care of his medical bills. It also pays lost wages, and continue to care for him while he is disabled and unable to work.
A construction worker may be permanently disabled and unable to return to his normal line of work. Workers compensation covers for such related expenses as well.
When an employee becomes temporarily or permanently disabled , they may simply be unable to work in the same field. A construction worker with a broken back that still has full use of his arms can potentially be retrained for new employment. That is completely different than the profession he was in before his injury.
Coverage and Cost
Workers comp insurance covers the costs associated with retraining and vocational rehabiliation. Employees may need to change professions in order to continue making a living.
Workers comp insurance also provides supplemental job displacement benefits. This means it covers the costs associated with your employees having to find new employment due to an injury or accident at their previous work place.
Workers compensation provides standard death benefits to your employee’s family. That is if a major accident occurs that causes an employee to lose his/her life.
