The Workers' Compensation Research Institute (WCRI), an independent, not-for-profit research organization that provides information about public policy issues involving workers' compensation systems, has released the eighth edition of its CompScope report. In this edition, two main questions are examined: How does the performance of a state system compare with that of other states and how is workers' compensation system performance changing over time?

The states included in this edition are Arkansas, California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin, which WCRI says represent more than 50 percent of the nation's workers' compensation benefit payments. The report can help policymakers and others benchmark a state's system performance or a company's workers' compensation program. They said the benchmarks they provide also offer an excellent baseline for tracking the effectiveness of policy changes and identifying important trends.

Below are a few of the findings and conclusions reached, which used claims filed between 2000 and 2005.

Recommended For You

Want to continue reading?
Become a Free PropertyCasualty360 Digital Reader

Your access to unlimited PropertyCasualty360 content isn’t changing.
Once you are an ALM digital member, you’ll receive:

  • Breaking insurance news and analysis, on-site and via our newsletters and custom alerts
  • Weekly Insurance Speak podcast featuring exclusive interviews with industry leaders
  • Educational webcasts, white papers, and ebooks from industry thought leaders
  • Critical converage of the employee benefits and financial advisory markets on our other ALM sites, BenefitsPRO and ThinkAdvisor
NOT FOR REPRINT

© Touchpoint Markets, All Rights Reserved. Request academic re-use from www.copyright.com. All other uses, submit a request to [email protected]. For more inforrmation visit Asset & Logo Licensing.