WorkersCompensation.com's CompNewsNetwork: CWCI Launches Scorecard Series Examining CA WC Claims Experience By Industry

CWCI Launches Scorecard Series Examining CA WC Claims Experience By Industry
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compnewsnetwork on 03 November, 2009 12:45:00
 
Oakland, CA - The California Workers' Compensation Institute has initiated a new
series of research publications, "California Workers' Compensation Industry
Score Cards," which use subsets of data from CWCI's Industry Claims Information
System (ICIS) database to measure various aspects of claims experience for
specific industry sectors. Each Score Card will profile claimant
characteristics and show distributions of claims and payments by diagnostic
category and claim type (Medical-Only, Temporary Disability, Permanent
Disablity, Death), attorney involvement rates, common "nature of injury" and
"cause of injury" categories, as well as claim closure rates and medical and
indemnity loss development at 12, 24 and 36 months post injury.
The first Score Card in the series, released this week, examines construction
industry claims. While employment in the construction sector has taken a hit
during the current recession, the Score Card notes that the construction
industry still accounted for one out of every seven California job injury
claims from 2001 through 2008, and these tended to be relatively expensive
claims, accounting for 18.5 percent of total workers' compensation payments
over that span.
Source: California Workers' Compensation Institute