Workers’ Compensation
Safeguarding Your People
Workplace safety has improved in recent decades, but the incidence of workers’ compensation claims remains high. Newfront offers a suite of services designed to reduce risk and increase employee safety.
Our Approach
Through Newfront’s multifaceted approach, we help you confidently manage workplace injuries, prioritize employee health and well-being, and reduce your total cost of risk.
Optimized Risk Financing
From guaranteed cost and retro programs to large deductibles and alternative collateral solutions, we identify and implement capital efficient programs aligned to your needs.
Claims Advocacy
An extension of your team, our claims advocates empower comprehensive claims management and effective claims resolution. From TPA and adjustor selection to reserve increase and settlement authority guidance, our team supports you throughout the claim life cycle.
Circle of Care
Our integrated workers’ compensation and wellness philosophy, referred to as the Circle of Care, promotes creating inter-connected initiatives focused on injury & illness prevention, best in class claims management, and creating a pathway to injury recovery, health, and well-being.
Data-Backed Insights for Risk Mitigation
Leveraging data-backed claims insights, we provide guidance on pre- and post- loss prevention to proactively reduce risk and create a safer work environment.
The Newfront Difference
RiskPulse
RiskPulse enables businesses to develop optimized strategies across the insurance portfolio, marking a new era in strategic risk management. Harnessing innovative technology, RiskPulse transforms Casualty and Property data into dynamic, intelligent perspectives.
With an interactive dashboard, RiskPulse allows for quick, curated insights to deliver a targeted risk mitigation approach with tangible value. RiskPulse features customized key performance indicators, inclusive of drill-down capabilities, which enables swift risk identification and enhanced visibility into ongoing program performance.
TCOR reduction prioritized across the portfolio, driving improved business economics and informed decisions
Risk metrics customized to your organization across product lines
Quick assessment of leading cost drivers enabling proactive risk mitigation strategies
Improved cost transparency and portfolio-wide performance tracking
Subject Matter Experts
Our dedicated team of industry veterans have a rich set of skills to holistically address your Workers' Compensation needs.
Deep technical knowledge with an intimate understanding of the workers compensation market
Jurisdictional expertise to address the increasingly complex workers compensation regulatory and legal environment
Claims advocacy team comprised of former adjusters, attorneys, nurses, and claim managers
Highly credentialed in-house Occupational Health & Safety team with acute focus on loss control and OSHA compliance
Technology-Based Resources
Our robust suite of tools empowers clients with knowledge and insights to track and anticipate emerging risks. Examples include:
Claims analytics
Online safety and HR learning management system
Safety, HR, and wellness resource library
OSHA recordkeeping and reporting tool
HR Hotline
Head of Casualty Practice
Frannie Epps
Frannie is responsible for driving the holistic Casualty value proposition for Newfront’s clients across the United States. With a strategic focus on program optimization and total cost of risk reduction, she brings deep expertise across a broad span of industries for companies of all sizes, ranging from start-ups to Fortune 10.
Director of Risk Control Services
Scott Rhymes
As Newfont’s Director of Risk Control, Scott leads a team of consultants who provide risk control and safety consulting services to clients designed to lower our client’s total cost of risk. Newfront risk control consultants partner with clients to increase risk awareness and reduce occupational, property, liability, and auto exposures by focusing on the client’s overall safety and risk management systems. Scott has over 27 years of experience in the risk management field, including direct employer-side experience directing programs for large municipal infrastructure districts, manufacturing and logistics, and biotech. Scott is also a regular guest speaker at local industry groups and university certificate programs.
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