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Ohio Workers' Compensation Requirements

    Every Ohio employer is required to get workers' compensation insurance regardless of the number of employees.

    Sole-Proprietors and Partners are not required to cover themselves on workers' compensation, but they can elect to be covered. A Notice of Election form may need be filed with The Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation.

    Corporate Officers are automatically included in Ohio coverage, but they may elect to be excluded using the proper exclusion form.

    LLC Members will be treated as either a corporate officer or sole-proprietor depending on how they form their entity and how they are treated for income tax purposes.

Workers' Comp Exemptions in Ohio

    Ohio does require minimum and maximum payroll requirements for business owners for the purposes of charging workers' compensation premium. This calculation is based on the state average weekly wage.

    Contractors doing business in Ohio may be subject to industry payroll limits for certain industry groups and may need maintain records to verify weekly wages paid to employees.


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How is Workers' Comp Calculated?

Workers' compensation is a commercial insurance product categorized as Property & Casualty insurance (P&C Insurance). Even though workers' comp is calculated using estimated payroll wages and class codes, premium is still a separate business expense from the cost of payroll. Ohio Employers may treat the cost of coverage as an expense on their taxes.

Work comp rates for all job classification codes are always expressed as a percentage of $100 in wages. An annual policy is always subject to an audit because it was based on estimated wages and not actual wages.

Here is an example using two class codes with different estimated payroll for each class code:

Class Code Insurance Companies Rate Per $100 Estimated Annual Payroll Divide Payroll by 100
8810 Clerical $0.28 base manual rate $25,000  (25000 divided by 100) 250
8835 Home Health Care $1.75 base manual rate $100,000  (100000 divided by 100) 1000

In order to calculate the cost of the policy you only need to multiply each rate with its divided payroll. It benefits employers to re-calculate their premium as their payroll becomes larger than originally anticipated.

Class Code Workers' Comp Calculator Estimated Premium
8810 Clerical $0.28 X 250 $70.00
8835 Home Health Care $1.75 X 1000 $1,750.00

* Additional premium costs may also include an expenses constant, terrorism charges, catastrophe charges and other state surcharges such as a second injury fund or other state assessment fees.

Ohio Workers' Compensation Insurance

Every state has their own laws to determine how employees must be covered and how they must be classified for rating premium. A lot of states use state specific class codes and have different requirements for who is obligated to carry workers' compensation insurance.

If you have employees that travel out of state for work, or they work in multiple states throughout the year, you may need to buy a policy for each of the states where your employees are located and working. In most cases, you can cover multiple states on one policy.

Workers' Compensation Insurance in Ohio can be purchased from private insurance companies authorized by the state to provide coverage. The Assigned Risk Pool, or an alternate State Insurance Fund, is available for businesses that are unable to find coverage from a private company. Our specialists help will help you navigate your best options.

Policy premium is based on numerous factors including: class codes assigned to your business and employees, estimated payroll, covered states, prior policies, owner experience and previous workers compensation claims.

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What Does Ohio Workers' Comp Cover?

Ohio workers' compensation insurance helps pay claim expenses when an employee, or a covered sub-contractor, is injured while working for your business. It also shields your business from other legal liabilities associated with an injured employee. Work comp coverage includes:

Medical Costs

Workers' comp insurance pays for the medical expenses associated with claims or injured workers. The cost of an ER visit, required surgeries and drug prescriptions are some of the covered expenses included under a policy. An employee injured due to a slip and fall would be covered, for example. Coverage for medical benefits can also include longer term expenses such as physical therapy or rehabilitation.

Employee Wages- Income Benefits

Most business owners can't afford to continue paying employees if they are unable to work while they are injured. Workers' comp income benefits in Ohio will replace most of your employees missing income if they are away from work due to an injury or illness. For example, if a construction employee broke his arm and could not perform the job for 8 weeks, the coverage would make payments to the employee to help replace the lost wages.

Short-Term and Long-Term Disabilities

Sometimes an injury can cause a partial disability or a more permanent disability. Workers' compensation steps in to help pay the cost of ongoing medical bills and may even replace a portion of wages lost due to the disability. If an employee had a finger amputated due to a work related injury. The employee could be paid a sum (known as an Impairment Rating) for the loss of the finger for permanent disability as well as some temporary disability coverage while recuperating.

Occupational Illness

Some types of work environments can include occupational exposures that have unforeseen circumstances. A chemical mixing operation, for example, may expose employees to chemical irritants and cause harmful reactions that make them sick. A workers' comp policy would cover the cost of treating an illness caused while performing the job.

Funeral Expenses

Nearly 50,000 deaths happen at work each year. Many of these are in the construction and trucking industries. A workers' compensation policy is designed to cover the cost of these funerals and to provide death benefits to the employees family. State guidelines often determine the dollar amount of coverage.

Workers' compensation coverage is a No-Fault system designed to prevent costly employee lawsuits related to on-the-job-injuries. Many state provisions include Exclusive Remedy rules that protect covered businesses from these lawsuits in exchange for providing workers' comp coverage for their employees. Claims should be reported to a supervisor with 30 days. Employers should also report any claims or accidents to their insurance company within 30 days from notification.

How Does Workers' Comp Work?

Workers' comp insurance covers business costs associated with injured employees and from legal liability.
Workers' comp coverage protects employees when injured. It makes good financial sense for both parties.
Injuries and accidents happen. A workers' comp policy is a no-fault system that pays for these accidents and claims. It's required by law in most states.
  • Lost income for workers who can't perform job duties
  • Medical expenses for injury or illness on the job
  • Retraining expenses for employees unable to return
  • Permanent injury or disability for lasting injuries
  • Survivor benefits if employees are killed on the job
Coverage does not protect employers from everything. Sometimes employees and employers can be negligent.
Workers' comp does not cover negligence or injuries caused when breaking the law.
In some instances, workers' compensation coverage will not protect employers or employees from the legal liability resulting from a workplace injury.
  • Injuries resulting from a violation of the law
  • Accidents resulting from using drugs or alcohol
  • Injuries that did not occur in connection with the job
  • Clear company policy violations
  • Injuries that did not occur in connection with the job

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Ohio is a Monopolistic State

The state of Ohio is one of the four remaining monopolistic states in the country. This means workers' compensation insurance can only be purchased through the Ohio State Fund. If you are a Ohio employer or you are doing work in the state of Ohio you will need to contact the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation (BWC) in order to purchase workers' compensation coverage.

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Workers' Compensation Shop.com can help Ohio business owners purchase out-of-state workers' comp coverage. If you are an Ohio employer doing business outside of the state, or you have employees who live outside of Ohio, please contact one of our Work Comp Specialists at 888-611-7467 to find the most affordable workers' compensation quotes for other states.

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The state of Ohio does not allow free-market competition and they are not part of NCCI. Rates vary significantly in non-monopolistic states and employers with limited losses or claims are rewarded with lower workers' comp rates because of a) lower experience modifiers and b) scheduled credits.

Help with OH Class Codes

Most private insurance carriers are licensed or authorized to offer workers' compensation in most state throughout the U.S. Employers who do business in more than one state benefit because they can purchase coverage for multiple states from a single insurance carrier.

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Monopolistic states do not benefit from utilizing standardized classification systems and national data statistics for workers' comp insurance. This causes problems for both Ohio employers and employers from other states doing work in Ohio. Special considerations are required.

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Inter-state and intra-state experience modifiers are not standardized for monopolistic states and Ohio employers may have separate experience modifiers affecting the cost of their insurance coverage. NCCI combines employer experience modifiers in non-monopolistic states.

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