Missouri Workers’ Comp Rates Fall for Insureds and for Self-Insureds

JEFFERSON CITY - Workers' comp insurance premiums have fallen sharply over the last several years in Missouri, but so have the costs of self-insured employers.One of those good news stories is reported by a Kansas City food distributor who was paying $70,000 a year in the voluntary market in 1994. Now, through a trust fund set up by the Missouri Chamber of Commerce, that employer is paying just $46,000 even though it has more employees.Part of the message here, too, is that the benefits of self-insu