Impacted by California results, U.S. workers' compensation payments for medical care and cash benefits for workplace injuries or diseases declined in 2006, a research group reported today.
The data was contained in a study by the National Academy of Social Insurance in Washington of the nation's covered workforce of 130 million.
NASI said the drop in payments in 2006 (the most recent year with complete data) reflects large declines in California payments for workers' comp lost time indemnity cash benefits as reforms enacted in 2003 and 2004 took effect.
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