Today’s issue of WorkCompRecap features a new scorecard report recently released by the California Workers’ Compensation Institute (CWCI) on job injury claims identified as “other injuries, poisonings and toxic effects”. This edition in the series was based on data from 169,287 open and closed claims for 2001-11 injuries that through January of 2012 had medical and indemnity benefit payments totaling nearly $3.1 billion.
Over the 11 year span of the study, the scorecard notes that “other injury, poisoning and toxic effect” cases accounted for 7.7% of California’s workers’ comp claims, but 10.1% of loss payments. Additionally, more than 1 out of 5 of these injuries resulted in a permanent disability payment, nearly 2/3 of the lost-time claims involved an attorney, and PD claims in the category took longer to close than other PD claims.
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