In the midst of the ongoing shift in the California job market and the recent weakness in the state's economy, job injury claims by restaurant workers rose from less than 5% of all California workers' compensation claims in 2001 to 8% of the claims in 2008, while claim payments to restaurant workers jumped from 3.2% to 5.6% of paid losses. CWCI's latest Industry Score Card takes an indepth look at workers' comp claims filed by restaurant workers between AY 2000 and AY 2008.