CPG company has only 60 employes, but paid $75,000 per year for insurance. A manger said “we’d accumulated a lot of (insurance) policies over the years, and at time we just paid our bills and didn’t look at what we were paying for”
CPG’S overspending on insurance could have been avoided if the firm had simply asked its broker a few basic questions and notify him o certain changes. For a while year, CPG had been paying for coverage on four rentel cars when it had only three. “When we asked, why did’t you take that fourth car off the policy?” The answer was “you didn’t tell us to”
Managers ter to deal with problem. They found workers’compensation plan got big problem. Several employees were in higher risk categories than they should be because the company base jod classification on salary and position rather than activities.
CPG also asked the broker to in translate all policies into “real English”, something they can understand. They found an insurance was bougth because of
misunderstanding the technical terms. It was unnecessary.
CPG found the biggest cost savings simply by asking for
lower premiums on rarely used policies.
As a result the company saved $10,000 per year on insurance. The most important thing is “we’ve learned to be proactive and ask questions,” says the manager “as opposed to just blindly accepting what they give us”.
Questions
1) What are the problems of CPG?
2) How did they deal with it?
3) What are the results?
4) Do you have any suggestions for CPG?