Research
ICIS Industry Score Card: Trucking Industry
A new CWCI Industry Score Card finds that a high percentage of job injury claims in California’s trucking industry result in lost time, and given the high volume of relatively serious injuries in this sector, the average medical and indemnity payments on trucking industry claims are well above the average for all claims in the state.
ICIS Industry Score Card: Restaurant Industry Claims Experience
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.
ICIS Industry Score Card: Non-Durable Goods Manufacturing
CWCI’s latest “Industry Score Card” provides detailed data on AY 2000 to 2008 claims experience among nondurable goods manufacturing workers in California. The new Score Card is based on a review of 136,742 job injury claims filed by workers involved in the manufacture of “soft goods” that are typically used or need to be replaced within a relatively short period – for example food items, apparel, and plastic goods.
Public Self-Insured Claims Experience in California WC FY 1999 – 2009
A CWCI analysis of claims data from California public self-insured employers finds that paid and incurred losses on those claims peaked in FY 02/03, then declined sharply, albeit briefly, following the ’02-04 reforms.
ICIS Industry Score Card: Durable Goods Manufacturing Claims Experience
Claims by durable goods manufacturing workers declined from 1 in 9 California job injuries in 2001 to less than 1 in 14 claims in 2008, underscoring the steep decline in manufacturing in the state, but average claim costs in this sector have jumped sharply since 2005, with both medical and indemnity benefit payments on the rise.
ICIS Industry Score Card: Agriculture
This Score Card focuses on California workers’ compensation claims filed by Agriculture workers. It is the fourth in a series of analyses that provide data from CWCI’s Industry Claims Information System (ICIS) database on claims experience within specific industry categories.

