The medical share of total workers' compensation insurance losses has jumped by 13 percentage points since 1987, according to new research by the National Council on Compensation Insurance.

NCCI said in a brief that such losses have gone up "dramatically" to a projected 59 percent for medical against 41 percent for wage replacement indemnity costs in 2007, based on actuarial estimates of ultimate accident-year losses.

Among other findings in the report, which NCCI labeled as key:

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