Workers' compensation Insurance for Construction Industry
Why choose Zurich for workers' compensation insurance?
Exceptional construction crews are built on teamwork. Give your employees a trusted workers’ compensation program that focuses on getting your employees back to work. Zurich offers workers’ compensation insurance coverage that covers medical care and physical rehabilitation of injured construction workers. It also helps to replace lost wages for employees injured in the course of employment.
- Professionals who specialize in the construction industry and understand the technical and operational aspects
- Leadership through active participation in key construction and insurance industry associations
- Insurance solutions aimed to reduce customer’s cost of risk while enhancing their profitability
- Policies and extensions that address industry-specific needs Customized programs that fit the unique risk appetite and coverage needs of the customer
- Integrated underwriting, risk engineering and claim account teams
- Domestic and global coverage capabilities
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Comprehensive Workers' Compensation for the Construction Industry
Zurich offers construction workers compensation insurance designed to help protect your most valuable asset: your employees. The unique challenges of construction demand specialized coverage. Our solutions for workers comp for contractors help ensure that employees injured on the job receive necessary medical care and wage replacement, while helping to shield your business from costly legal disputes.
We understand that managing insurance costs effectively is crucial. That's why we offer:
- Pay-As-You-Go Workers' Comp: Aligning premium payments with actual payroll can offer a more manageable and accurate way to budget for your coverage. This can help improve cash flow and reduce audit surprises.
- Flexible Program Options: Tailored to meet the specific needs of your operations.
With Zurich's long history of supporting the construction industry, we work with you to prioritize workplace safety construction practices, helping you build safely and efficiently.
To simplify your insurance process and help protect your workforce, learn more about Pay-As-You-Go Workers' Comp today.
Coverage is available in all states where third-party policies can be issued and may be provided for all employee exposures and locations. Excess policies are available for qualified self-insured states. Additional options include:
- Stop-gap employers’ liability for monopolistic states
- United States Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act (USL&H) for over-the-water exposures
- Maritime Act for operation of vessels
- Defense Base Act for work on military/embassy locations
- Foreign coverage for employees traveling/temporarily assigned outside the United States, including repatriation expenses and endemic disease coverages
- Volunteers for company-sponsored events
- Waiver of subrogation on a blanket basis
- Guaranteed cost
- Small and intermediate deductibles
- Large deductibles with combined aggregates and clash deductibles
- Retrospective rating plans
- Dividend plans
- Employers’ liability limits of up to million
- Convenient payment terms
Integrated Risk Management and Claims Services
Zurich's commitment to your team's well-being extends through integrated risk management and claims services. Our risk engineering for construction safety specialists provide a limited advisory function, collaborating with you to implement construction injury prevention
strategies. This proactive approach helps to reduce the likelihood of incidents and foster a safer work environment.
Should an injury occur, our dedicated construction workers comp claims management team provides focused support. We work to facilitate efficient claims processing and support construction return-to-work programs, helping your valuable employees recover and return to their roles safely. By analyzing claims data, we help identify trends and implement corrective measures, supporting a continuous cycle of safety improvement.
This integrated approach helps to protect your workforce, manage costs, and maintain your project's momentum.
- Professionals dedicated to the construction industry with experience in risk assessment, program evaluation and exposure identification
- Consultative solutions designed to mitigate and reduce losses
- Industrial hygiene specialist to address environmental conditions in the workplace
Training offered through the Zurich Seminar Series includes topics such as:
- Construction health management
- Fall management
- Fleet management
- Quality management
- Site safety leadership skills
- Workforce development
- Professionals who are focused on mitigating loss and returning injured employees to work
- Robust managed care program including: national preferred provider organization (PPO), integrated case management, medical bill review, treatment and utilization management, prescription management, early return-to-work
- FirstReport Online (FROL), for employee injury and illness recordkeeping and facilitation of OSHA reporting
- Proactive injury management available through eZ Transition®, Zurich’s online return-to-work system
- Litigation management
- Special investigation unit
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As one of the leading insurance carriers in the construction industry, our mission is to provide creative solutions for the risks our customers face today and in the future by providing a broad array of distinctive products and services, we work to help limit the cost of risk while helping to increase job site safety awareness.
Zurich Construction’s experienced leadership team is ready to work with you to help ensure your business risk management needs are met.
Risk Engineering
Through Zurich Resilience Solutions (ZRS), we provide specialized insights and tools to support our customers with solutions addressing traditional and evolving risks – above and beyond insurance.
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Claims Services
Zurich Claims specialists are strategically deployed in the U.S. and around the globe to help customers mitigate and respond to loss events, and to gain insights into becoming more resilient against future losses.
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Zurich tailors workers compensation coverage to help meet the needs of mid-sized and large construction customers including:
- Artisan/specialty trade contractors
- Builders of predominantly single-family detached homes, with annual revenue of million or more
- Construction managers
- Contractors operating under a workers’ compensation collective-bargaining agreement (CBA) or alternative dispute resolution (ADR) program
- Design-build firms
- General contractors
- Heavy and highway contractors
- Owners or sponsors of both public and private construction projects, including wrap-ups
- Owner-controlled insurance programs (OCIPs)
- Contractor-controlled insurance programs (CCIPs) and joint ventures
