NCCI released an Economic Flash Report: Labor Market Insights analyzing the recently released September employment data. Big Picture: Employment data prior to the shutdown showed that the labor market appeared to be stabilizing after several months of weakness. […]
NCCI recently conducted its annual survey of insurance executives on top-of-mind issues in the workers compensation (WC) industry. This 25th annual survey draws feedback from more than 100 carriers annually and helps guide NCCI’s data-driven research, […]
This report examines recent trends in the use of home health and skilled nursing services in workers compensation claims. It highlights significant differences in expected accident year costs when segmented by claim size and injury type. The […]
Key Insights: Aggregate Measures of General and Medical Inflation Key Insights: NCCI's Workers Compensation Weighted Medical Price Index (WCWMI) Click the images to access the Medical Inflation Insights report, and click here for a history of the data available from […]
On October 14, 2025, the Appellate Court of Illinois, Fifth District, in Midwest Neurosurgeons v. F.W. Electric, Inc., considered whether a medical provider could recover the costs of services it had rendered to an injured employee […]
The Latest Trends in Medical Equipment Cost Share Medical equipment—including Durable Medical Equipment (DME); Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Implants (POI); and Supplies—has emerged as a significant component of workers compensation medical costs. This research brief reports […]
WHAT: Remote work has surged from 4–7% pre-pandemic to 20–30% of U.S. workers today. NCCI’s latest brief examines how this shift has impacted WC claim frequency. KEY FINDINGS: Using NCCI data, we observe a 40% decline in frequency for Combined […]
At its Annual Insights Symposium (AIS) in May 2025, NCCI presented the State of the Line Report—a comprehensive assessment of the workers compensation (WC) insurance line of business. The results presented in that report reflect the most current data available […]
