Today’s edition of WorkCompRecap features a new scorecard report recently released by the California Workers’ Compensation Institute (CWCI) on work injury claims in California involving shoulder, arm, knee, and lower leg sprains. The third in CWCI’s “Injury Scorecard” series, it is based on an analysis of 236,567 California job injury claims where aggregate medical and indemnity benefit payments totaled nearly $2.4 billion.
Over the 11-year span of the study, the scorecard notes that workers with these types of sprains accounted for 10.6% of California’s job injury claims, however only 1 in 7 involved a permanent disability payment, they had a relatively low attorney involvement rate, and those that resulted in lost-time closed more quickly than other types of claims, so they accounted for only 7.8% of benefit payments.
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