It showed that two major coal companies had failed to pay $200 million in wages, taxes, environmental fines and workers' compensation premiums.

Both health and workers' compensation premiums fluctuate depending on how often a company files for claims.

In 1985 the Maine Legislature actually reduced workers' compensation premiums by 8 percent.

Drug tests are used for a variety of reasons-corporate ethics, measuring potential employee performance, and keeping workers' compensation premiums down.

Some are saving 50 percent from what they expected to pay in workers' compensation premiums.

By law, Montana logging companies must pay $34.39 in workers' compensation premiums for every $100 in payroll.

For one, private insurers who now collect more than $30 billion in workers' compensation premiums from employers would see their business shrink drastically.

In 2001, the company spent 8 cents per payroll dollar on workers' compensation premiums for dancers.

Over the last three years, workers' compensation premiums have risen by an average of 50 percent nationwide.

Second, workers' compensation premiums are determined for more than 600 classes of employment.