Oakland, CA – The California Workers’ Compensation Institute (CWCI) has launched a new, systemwide, online application with data on all insured and self-insured California workers’ compensation claims from accident years 2018–2024 reported to the state’s Workers’ Compensation Information System (WCIS).

CWCI designed its new application, the Claim Characteristics and Trends App, by modifying its COVID-19/Non-COVID-19 reporting tool, introduced in the summer of 2020, to make it more reflective of all California workers’ compensation claims in the post-pandemic era. The app, featuring two data tabs and a reference tab detailing the data and methods used to construct the application, focuses on overall trends and claim distributions by region, industry, and injury characteristics, and allows users to access data on the number of reported and projected claims by year, by quarter and year, or by month and year.

Filters within each of the data tabs can be used to build customized views showing results for combinations of insured and self-insured claims, as well as by claim type, industry, region, injury description, reporting timeliness, and COVID-19 status. The app also tracks the number and rate of California workers’ compensation death claims. To keep the information current, CWCI plans to update the app on a monthly basis as new WCIS data becomes available.

CWCI’s Claim Characteristic and Trends App was made possible through special access to the California Division of Workers’ Compensation’s WCIS data and is available to the public. It can be found under the Research tab on the Institute’s home page (www.cwci.org).