BWC Rate-makeing 101

COLUMBUS — The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) Thursday 2/7/2019 proposed a 20-percent reduction in the average premium rate it charges private employers, its largest rate cut in nearly 60 years if approved by the agency’s board of directors.

While BWC generally provides coverage for employees working temporarily outside of Ohio, complications can arise when the injured worker files a claim in another state. Treatment can be delayed and businesses can be subject to penalties by the other state. 

Effective Sept. 29, 2015, BWC will no longer consider volunteer corporate officers of nonprofit corporations to be employees for purposes of workers' compensation. Therefore, BWC will no longer require nonprofits to pay premiums for these volunteers.

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