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Workers' Comp Insurance for Small Business

Comprehensive workers' comp insurance and expert claims management—no upfront costs and pay-as-you-go flexibility.

Best Workers’ Comp Insurance for Small Business

Small businesses face unique challenges when it comes to protecting their workforce from on-the-job injuries. With rising costs and complex compliance requirements, finding the right workers' comp solution can feel overwhelming.

That’s where Axcet HR Solutions comes in.

As a certified PEO, we offer comprehensive workers’ comp insurance through a master policy that eliminates the headaches of traditional insurance shopping. Our expert claims management, pay-as-you-go billing, and no upfront costs give small businesses unparalleled protection and peace of mind.

Axcet’s risk management team not only handles claims but also helps you proactively minimize workplace injuries—keeping your employees safe and your business compliant.

Let us help you save time, reduce costs and ensure your business is protected with the best workers' comp insurance for small business.

In every state, all but the smallest companies are required to carry workers’ comp insurance.

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Why Choose a PEO for Your Workers’ Comp Insurance Company

As a certified PEO, Axcet HR Solutions offers a master workers’ compensation policy that provides unique advantages over traditional insurance options.

What truly sets Axcet apart is our award-winning risk management team. Our experts take ownership of the entire claims process, minimizing workplace injury impacts and providing exceptional, hands-on support to protect your business.

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Here’s why Axcet’s PEO model stands out:

Axcet eliminates the need for annual policy shopping by handling all renewals, freeing you from the administrative burden.

Small businesses benefit from no down payments, ensuring better cash flow management.

Our billing is based on real-time payroll, meaning you only pay for the exact coverage your business requires.

Axcet’s program eliminates the hassle and unpredictability of year-end audits, which often lead to unexpected premium adjustments.

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As a workers’ comp insurance company with decades of experience, Axcet HR Solutions’ professionals have handled all kinds of claims and thoroughly understand the workers’ comp system. 

Because few small businesses have this expertise on their internal teams, it’s not uncommon for claims to be managed ineffectively when they go it alone – a situation that leads to disgruntled employees, lower productivity and higher overall costs.

Axcet’s claims team:

  • Works directly with the injured worker, medical providers, claims adjusters and, when appropriate, attorneys to coordinate all aspects of the claims process while keeping you apprised of progress.
  • Manages claims effectively and efficiently to minimize cost. This, in turn, reduces the overall impact to insurance prices related to workplace injuries.

Axcet’s pros already are workers’ comp insurance and claims experts, so you don’t have to be.

Axcet HR Solutions provides the best workers' comp insurance for small business by offering a strategic, holistic injury management protocol that minimizes the impact of workplace injuries. 

Our approach integrates administrative procedures, medical treatment, rehabilitation and employer best practices to ensure ideal outcomes and a safe, timely return to work for injured employees.

Clients in Axcet’s workers' comp program benefit from efficient, time-tested protocols. From the moment a claim is reported, we assist in identifying the right medical professionals and guide you through every step of the claims process, ensuring cost-effective resolutions.

Axcet acts as a trusted liaison between your business, the injured employee, medical providers, claims adjusters, and attorneys, when necessary. By serving as your single point of contact, we eliminate the need for you to manage these third parties, allowing you to focus on your business.

Not every worksite accident results in a valid claim under workers' compensation insurance. With Axcet HR Solutions, clients benefit from our extensive experience in determining whether an incident qualifies for compensation.

Our workers' comp insurance for small business team applies state-specific laws to ensure that only legitimate claims are paid.

Axcet’s certified claims management team reviews all reported workplace injuries with meticulous attention to detail. Having evaluated thousands of claims, our team quickly identifies red flags and investigates any suspicious reports. This thorough approach helps protect our clients and insurance carriers from paying out non-compensable or fraudulent claims, safeguarding your business from unnecessary costs.

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In states like Kansas and Missouri, employers have the authority to direct an injured employee’s medical care. Unlike typical workers’ comp insurance companies, Axcet has strong relationships with trusted physicians and specialists who understand the workers' compensation system. 

This ensures that small businesses receive accurate diagnoses, tailored work restrictions and expert assistance with compensability issues.

By working with Axcet, clients avoid disreputable healthcare providers, ensuring that injured employees receive the best possible care while safeguarding the business from inflated costs and complications. 

Our workers’ comp insurance for small business expertise ensures better outcomes for both the employee and employer.

Axcet HR Solutions helps small businesses contain workers' compensation claims costs by guiding them to use the right network providers at the right time. By avoiding unnecessary emergency room visits and ensuring injured workers receive appropriate care, Axcet maintains both effective treatment and cost-efficiency.

Small businesses that don’t have the guidance of Axcet may make costly mistakes, such as sending employees to non-network physicians unfamiliar with the workers' compensation system. These well-intentioned decisions often lead to increased claims costs, which, in turn, raise the employer’s workers' compensation insurance premiums.

By working with Axcet, small businesses can make informed, cost-effective decisions that stabilize costs and eliminate unexpected premium increases—something not always guaranteed by traditional workers' comp insurance companies.

Axcet HR Solutions acts as both an employer and employee advocate, ensuring injured workers receive the best medical care to facilitate their recovery and return to work.

By helping employees get back on the job as quickly and safely as possible, small businesses enhance workers' emotional and physical well-being while maintaining their engagement with the company.

Facilitating an early return to work, even in a limited capacity, reduces the risk of extended claims and costly outcomes.

Axcet’s claims management team collaborates with medical providers to clarify work restrictions and assists employers in modifying job responsibilities.

This allows employees to contribute without the risk of further injury until they receive full medical clearance.

Employees under the influence of alcohol or drugs at work pose a significant risk to themselves and others. Within our workers’ comp insurance for small business program, Axcet HR Solutions helps businesses establish a strong substance abuse policy, a crucial part of maintaining a safe, drug-free workplace.

If an employee involved in an accident is found to be under the influence, Axcet’s workers’ comp claims management team determines whether the claim can be denied under state regulations.

In these situations, our experts collaborate with in-house HR specialists to guide clients on handling disciplinary or termination actions, ensuring consistent and compliant resolutions.

Additionally, workplace injuries can sometimes uncover broader employment risks. Axcet’s team consults with clients to mitigate and manage these additional exposures effectively.

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When a workers’ compensation claim escalates to litigation, it’s critical that the defense counsel represents both the employer’s and the insurance carrier’s interests. 

Unfortunately, traditional workers' comp insurance companies don’t always ensure this alignment. 

As a PEO, Axcet HR Solutions takes a proactive approach by hand-selecting trusted defense counsel who fully understands and advocates for your business.

Our claims management team works closely with defense counsel, thoroughly reviewing claims and medical records to provide a complete perspective from the employer’s side. 

Axcet’s involvement, from depositions to court appearances, helps prevent costly mistakes and leads to more efficient, cost-effective outcomes for your business.

When a workers’ compensation claim results in litigation, it is important for the defense counsel to equally represent the interests of the employer and the insurance carrier – but, with traditional insurance policies, that situation does not always occur. Axcet hand-selects trusted defense counsel to represent those interests. This allows our claims management team to ensure the defense counsel has a complete understanding of the claim from the employer’s perspective.

Axcet’s workers’ compensation management team reviews claims and medical records and knows them inside out, then sits right next to the attorney during claimant depositions and in court. This involvement reduces expensive mistakes and leads to more cost-effective outcomes.

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Small business owners prioritize workplace safety, yet accidents and illnesses are unforeseen realities. This underscores the importance of reliable workers' comp insurance.

While options exist with private insurance carriers or state-assigned risk pools, a smarter choice is partnering with a PEO, especially one with seasoned risk management consultants. Here are seven reasons why choosing a PEO for workers' comp is a strategic move to better protect your business and its employees.

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Risk Management Company FAQs: Your Questions

Understanding and navigating the complexities of workers’ comp insurance for small business can seem overwhelming. 

To address this, our risk management consultants have compiled your most frequently asked questions – and their answers – to guide those considering the advantages of entrusting this essential business component to an experienced, certified risk management company.

Workers’ compensation insurance, or workers’ comp for short, is an employer-employee-based insurance policy that pays medical expenses, lost income and disability benefits for an employee who sustains a work-related injury or illness.

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Most states require businesses—except for the smallest ones—to carry workers' compensation insurance. Failing to do so can lead to fines and penalties. 

Since requirements vary by state, it's important for small business owners to consult their state's workers' compensation board or a workers' comp expert, like a PEO, to ensure compliance. 

Even if your business isn’t legally required to have workers' comp, it’s often a smart decision to protect against potential liability.

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Axcet offers a master workers' comp insurance policy through its PEO services, which includes several unique benefits for small businesses. 

These include no down payments, pay-as-you-go billing, and the elimination of year-end audits. 

With Axcet, you also gain access to expert claims management, ensuring that your business remains protected while minimizing costs associated with workplace injuries.

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Yes, we have a dedicated, in-house claims management team ready to serve your business. 

As part of providing the best workers' comp insurance for small business, our risk management consulting services cover injury management protocols, accident compensability, fraud investigation and more.

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We are small, and as such, rarely in the eye of a payroll services company. Axcet works with our multiple entities. I want to focus on our business, and they focus on HR for me. Because we are small, I really don't want to have a 'personal' disagreement about PTO or vacation pay, so I set the guidelines, and Axcet manages them, which I love.

Felisha M.

Owner, Insurance Firm
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We really appreciate the work you are doing for our tradeshow and exhibit display company. The fun part is we get at least an email a day, phone calls every day, and we see the commercials on tv for something that you have taken care of for us last year. (And, of course, it is in the capable IRS hands now.)

Thanks for making this so easy for us.

Don J.

Owner, B2B Tradeshow & Exhibit Company
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Turning our admin, payroll, benefits, 401K, workers' compensation, etc., over to Axcet HR has been one of the best decisions that we've ever made: that was back in 2001! We've had 21 great years with Axcet and hope to have 21 more! Axcet has saved us time and LOTS of money but most of all, Axcet HR has allowed us to focus on running our business...because we know, day in, and day out that Axcet has our back!

Bob G.

Owner, B2B Services Company
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As a start-up, Axcet's HR solutions have been an integral partner in guiding us through several key business necessities and requirements. They have been very helpful in core functions including recruiting, 401k setup, employee onboarding, benefits enrollment, payroll and various compliance training for our employees. We've gained business momentum as a result of Axcet's team of dedicated professionals.

Andrew C.

Chief Growth Officer, Technology Company
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Axcet has helped us find affordable benefits for our 15 employees. Being a small firm, it was hard to find various health insurance options. It is nice knowing that we have someone with HR knowledge. It is good to get another persons opinion when we are having employee issues.

Michelle W.

Controller, Engineering Firm
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Axcet's professionalism and knowledge is a definite asset for our company. They have saved me so many hours in Payroll, HR, Benefits and Workers Comp. There is no way for me to keep up on Human Resources! I praise their staff highly! ...Axcet KNOWS Customer Service!

Anna H.

Owner, Car Dealership
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Axcet has been so helpful and professional in answering questions that I have for payroll processing. My payroll administrator is so prompt in replying to emails. He is really easy to work with and is so knowledgeable. Our Human Resources Consultant is professional and personable. I have great confidence in Axcet and have never hesitated in contacting them for questions or clarification.

Mandy C.

Non-Profit Ministry
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Axcet HR has help lesson our burden in all aspects of payroll, HR, safety and our 401K. When an employee comes to one of us with a situation. All we do is point them to our Axcet administrator and or payroll administrator and the issue gets resolved. It has been a great relationship.

Rick B.

Electrical Services Company
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I burned through a couple of "payroll companies" before I found Axcet. I have yet to encounter anyone at this company that hasn't been friendly, approachable and knowledgeable. Calls are returned amazingly fast and problems are solved without having to make any other calls. This is truly a great company and stellar business partner!

Nita C.

Owner, Medical Industry Company
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With all the changing rules and regulations we face as employers, I was always afraid of a "Gotcha!" moment. We've been with Axcet over 10 years now and I sleep well at night knowing all our HR is done right. They make it all so easy. Our payroll is accurate, we are legal and OSHA compliant in every area, and my employees love their benefits. Our team at Axcet is more than just a good vendor, they are a great partner!

Bruce H.

Founder & CEO, Services Company
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My faith in Axcet's expertise has always been off the charts. It has been so nice to just be able to pick up the phone and ask questions. Simple to complex ... they can do all of it! Axcet has allowed us to offer an extensive benefits package to our Teammates which has been an added bonus. Axcet is not only part of our Team but we consider them part of our Family! We are one of Axcet's many fans. No regrets since day one and we wouldn't change a thing!

Moira V.

Small Business Owner
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Axcet handles all of payroll, HR and benefits needs. As a non-profit, it's great to have Axcet as a partner to provide all of the employee benefits and HR support that I need so our staff can focus on the core mission of our organization! They have helped me with hiring, navigating benefits enrollment to get our employees the best rates possible, as well as navigating possible employee related tax credits. I love our Axcet team!

Emily D.

CEO, a Kansas City Non-profit
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We had tried two other PEOs. Both of which we left after the first year. The level of service that we were accustomed to with Axcet was not there, so we came back to Axcet truly because of the excellent service we always received. Everyone at Axcet would make us feel like we were their only client, like they were sitting there waiting for our call, always friendly and ready to help. 

Lisa C.

VP of Finance, Kansas City Financial Institution
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We started working with Axcet in 2018 and they have dramatically increased our internal productivity. We used to spend hours on payroll, HR, benefits, taxes, etc. each week and that is no longer the case. Prior to Axcet, we worked with two other payroll companies and is was a complete mess. Working with Axcet is like having a robust and efficient internal HR department. They have solutions to every problem and we no longer feel lost trying to navigate the payroll landscape. If you want to streamline your business and get out of the HR and payroll weeds, then go with Axcet.

Peyton W.

Owner, Recruitment Firm
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Thank you Axcet HR for your assistance with the employee issue. You justified every penny we pay to Axcet through this exercise. I am really glad we have you and Axcet as a resource. It gave me peace of mind, knowing that you would know how to handle these situations the correct way. I really appreciate all the effort put into this to help me stay on course and protect our company.

Mark S.

President, B2B Company
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