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Suggestions to Reduce Your Business Insurance Costs

Feb 21, 2019

Commercial

Suggestions to Reduce Your Business Insurance Costs

Try out these suggestions to reduce your commercial insurance rates.

No business owner wants to pay more than they have to when it comes to their commercial insurance. Fortunately, there are certain things that you can do to keep your business insurance costs down. Try out these suggestions to reduce your commercial insurance rates.

  • Minimize Your Risks

Your business's insurance costs are based partially on the number of risks that it faces. To access lower rates, you should take steps to address your business's most serious dangers. By implementing comprehensive employee health and safety training, following OSHA's recommended workplace safety suggestions, and taking other workplace precautions, you can lower your business's insurance costs.

  • Properly Categorize Your Employees

When securing workers' compensation insurance, you will have to categorize each of your employees based on state codes. Oftentimes, business owners make mistakes in their classifications and accidentally register their employees as higher risk than they actually are.  To ensure that you are not overpaying for your worker's comp coverage, make sure that you review your employee classification codes to ensure that they are all accurate.

  • Regularly Review and Update Your Policies

As a business owner, you have a lot on your plate. This is why it may be tempting to simply renew your business insurance policies without taking the time to review them. However, renewing without reviewing could mean that you are paying more for your coverage than you have to. To ensure that you aren't simply throwing your money away, it's important that you carefully review your coverages during your renewal period. Oftentimes, you will find that your insurance needs have changed. By updating your coverage accordingly, you can avoid dangerous coverage gaps and sometimes lower your rates.

Try out these suggestions to reduce your commercial insurance rates. Do you have further questions regarding your business insurance needs? If so, then contact the experts at John E. Peakes Insurance Agency for assistance today.