Workers' compensation policies are often the largest premium expense in your insurance program. Our specialists work with you to negotiate lower premium costs through proactive analysis of health and safety standards to complement claims and injury management services.

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We understand your health and safety goals and objectives.

    We appreciate that workers' compensation policies are often the largest premium expense in your insurance program. Our specialists work with you to negotiate lower premium costs through proactive analysis of health and safety standards to complement claims and injury management services.

    This includes analytical tools to assess the viability of various insurance structures from conventional to retro paid loss structures, all the way to self-insurance. In addition, we provide a full suite of claims and injury management services detailed below.

    Our services

    Workers’ compensation experts design insurance programs that reduce costs, and we analyse your claims data to identify the causes that can be most efficiently eliminated.

    HOW YOU CAN BENEFIT FROM LOCKTON’S EXPERTISE:

    • Access to insurers to negotiate competitive pricing

    • Claims and injury management services assisting early return to work

    • State-of-the-art benchmarking and analytics designed to take advantage of market trends

    • Loss forecasting and probability analysis

    • Alternative risk expertise, including captive consulting and formation

    • Self-insurance experts

    • A full suite of safety services designed to reduce loss costs

    OUR PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

    We offer a range of services to support each state workers’ compensation scheme such as:

    • Placement services

    • Injury management claims services

    • Premium industry benchmarking

    Not only have I been able to rely on Lockton to assist with addressing historical issues with our workers’ compensation insurer, they were also able to leverage their portfolio to appoint a new claims advisor team that was a better fit with our business.
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    Key contacts

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    Rachel Watson

    Head of Workplace Risk
    rachel.watson@lockton.com
    +61 478 998 262

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    Christina Italiano

    National Manager, Claims & Injury Management

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    Damien Charleston

    National Manager - Workers Compensation

    General Inquiries

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