Motor vehicle accidents account for 21.5 percent of workers'compensation death claims, a study by the National Council onCompensation Insurance has found.
The 32-page research brief, "Traffic Accidents--A GrowingContributor to Workers' Compensation Losses" also said that vehicleaccidents are more severe than the average workers' comp claim,comprising close to 2 percent of claims but more than 5.5 percentof losses, on average, from 1997 to 2003.
Additionally, vehicle accident claims are more likely to belost-time and comprise a disproportionate share of the most severeclaim types, wrote NCCI researchers Tanya Restrepo, Harry Shufordand Auntara De.
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