Experts in Workers’ Compensation Premium Recovery

We Help Employers Obtain Workers Compensation Refunds

Zed Services is an independent consulting firm specializing in obtaining workers’ compensation refunds on prior policies and reducing premiums on current policies for employers throughout the United States.

Approximately 75% of businesses are overcharged on their workers’ compensation premiums, due to errors by the insurance companies. We find errors and overcharges and have them corrected, with refunds and credits issued to you shortly thereafter. We work on a contingency basis, so you only pay us for results.

What We Do

Zed Services will conduct a thorough, independent, and unbiased review of your current and past several years’ workers’ compensation policies in order to find errors and overcharges. We simply point out the errors and have them corrected to your benefit.

We find errors and overcharges in approximately 75% of the accounts we review. How long the process takes depends on how quickly we are able to obtain the information pertinent to our review and the types of errors we identify. Usually, we have results for our clients within 2-3 weeks. If there is no recovery, there is no fee.

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If we are unable to get back any refunds or savings, we simply tell you that you haven not been overcharged and thank you for giving us the opportunity to review your account; you will not pay us a dollar out of pocket.

We handle the entire process. We know your time is valuable, so we try to obtain all the paperwork we need to conduct our review from your insurance companies. Your involvement is minimal. If we are unable to obtain certain information directly, we simply ask you to email the appropriate party to request that they send it directly to you so you can forward it to us. That is the most work that you put in. Otherwise, we will do all the work to obtain refunds for you. You only pay us once you have received the refunds or credits as a result of our work.

Types Of Errors

Workers’ compensation premiums are determined through a complex process that involves multiple departments within insurance companies and rating bureaus that have differing agendas and do not effectively communicate all the time. Therefore, various types of errors can lead to overcharges on your workers’ compensation premiums.

Overcharges can result from one or more of the following: errors in calculating experience modification factors (stemming from errors in claims handling and various other factors used in calculating experience mods), errors in payrolls and classification codes, errors in applying proper discounts and credits, as well as other technical and clerical errors. These errors can lead to overcharges anywhere from hundreds of dollars to tens of thousands of dollars.

We usually conduct a thorough review going back at least 10 years. However, how far we can go back to make corrections depends on specific state guidelines. Some errors can be corrected within a seven-year window while other errors can be corrected within only a five or three-year window.

Every year when you renew your workers’ compensation insurance, we lose the ability to make certain corrections and recover the overcharges that resulted from those errors. That money stays in the insurance company’s pocket and is never returned to you because the statute of limitations has run out.

Therefore, if you are coming up for renewal soon, it is essential that you sign up for our service as soon as possible in order to secure the maximum refunds. Do not let the insurance company hold on to the money that is owed to you.

Contingency Fee

Our fee is a percentage of the savings that we obtain for our clients. You will not pay us a fee until you have received a refund or credit. If there is no recovery, there is no fee.

Our service often results in future savings that we cannot quantify and therefore do not charge for. Any future savings that we cannot quantify are yours to keep.

Clients

Our clients come from wide varieties of industries including transportation, distribution, manufacturing, construction, healthcare, food and hospitality, retail, wholesale, staffing, education, and nonprofits. If your company is paying $100,000 or more in workers’ compensation premiums annually, there is a significant likelihood that you have been overcharged.

Insurance Companies and Agents

Our service will not have any adverse effects on your relationship with insurance companies or agents.
Overcharges happen for 75% of insureds regardless of insurance company. So, the types of errors we find are not a rarity.

They happen due to the complex nature of handling claims and determining workers’ compensation premiums. Therefore, when we identify an error and request the insurance company to make a correction, they simply comply and make a correction.

As for agents and brokers, they simply do not have the time and resources to conduct the type of detailed retrospective review that we perform. They also face an inherent conflict, as reducing your premiums would directly reduce their commissions.

They are not exactly thrilled to take on a tedious project that would only hurt their bottom line. Still, a lot of smart agents and brokers recognize the value of our service and refer their clients to us because they understand that their client’s best interest is their primary mission and that a happy client is a loyal client.

We are not affiliated with any insurance companies or agencies and we do not sell insurance. Workers’ compensation premium recovery is all we do. Our success directly correlates with our ability to obtain the maximum refunds for our clients.