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Group Rating Safety Accountability
Each year Ohio employers have the opportunity to participate in BWC’s Group-Experience-Rating Program or Group-Retrospective-Rating Program. While these programs are not required, they do provide you with an opportunity to significantly reduce your workers’ compensation premiums, while increasing your awareness of safety and risk-management strategies. Workplace safety is an important component of these programs. To succeed in ...
Read MoreSave Significantly on Your Workers’ Compensation Premium
Did you know that many alternative discounts are available to help reduce your annual Ohio workers’ compensation costs? Through NARI of Southwest Ohio workers’ compensation program, your organization can significantly reduce your workers’ compensation costs through a variety of alternative rating programs. Our program, administered by Sedgwick, offers you quality service and stability through the complex workers’
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A 2022 CotY Winner Spotlight: Kircher Design and Build
Couples who run a business together, stay together. Carrie and John Bordenkircher, owners of Kircher Construction, have submitted to the Contractor of the Year awards every year since 2007 – and they’ve never lost. Last year, Kircher Construction won the Residential Bath $50,000-$75,000 category with a master bath remodel. They were challenged with clients who already had a nice, traditional bathroom, but ...
Read MoreContractor of The Year Award: Now Accepting Entries for 2023!
Entries for the 2023 NARI of Southwest Ohio CotY Awards are now being accepted! The deadline to enter is November 1, 2022 and projects completed between November 2020 and October 2022 are eligible for entry. Contractor of the Year Awards (CotY) recognize excellence and are the premier awards for the remodeling industry. These local awards are handed out once per year recognizing excellence in remodeling as ...
Read MorePremium Installment and True-Up Reporting for Private Employers
Employers must pay premiums timely to the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) to receive and maintain workers’ compensation coverage. Through the year, employers have been making premium installment payments based on estimated payroll. As we near the conclusion of the 2021 policy year (July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022), BWC will be requiring all employers to reconcile (“true-up”) the payroll that was used to ...
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