Kept on Salary Process

08/02/2022

Bridging the Gap to Bring Employees Back to Work

Kept on Salary, or KOS, is when an employer pays their injured employees' full wages (including benefits) when they are injured on the job because a doctor has certified that they can't work. The employer pays KOS in place of the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) paying time-loss directly to the injured worker. As a program requirement, ROII participants pay up to a maximum of 30 working days of KOS – 30 days may happen consecutively or over the course of the claim. In addition to being a participation requirement, KOS can also help you avoid an increase in your workers' comp premiums, maintain a claim-free discount and earn maximum retro refunds.

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Why Should I Accommodate Temporary Light Duty?

06/01/2023

Have you ever wondered why you should accommodate temporary light duty?

While it may seem counterintuitive to spend money to have a worker do minimal modified duty work, it actually saves money long term. There are many benefits when accommodating temporary light duty and we've outlined a few.

Claims and Rejections: Effectively Navigating a Tricky Claim

03/30/2023

What do you do if a former employee who hasn't been with your company for months because they walked off a jobsite and quit submits an injury claim? What if you have an ironclad safety program and have documentation proving that they knew how to run a machine and file a report of accident claiming they were injured on that machine? What if you also had multiple witnesses who stated the former employee told them the injury didn't actually happen on the job? You might think this scenario would be plenty of information for Labor and Industries (L&I) to reject this claim, but unfortunately, you would be wrong. You'd be surprised how hard it is to fight the allowance of bogus claims like this one and how hard it is to navigate the L&I system in general.

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