The report for Illinois provides ongoing annual monitoring of how indemnity benefits, medical payments, and benefit delivery expenses per claim change over time, as well as how the Illinois workers’ compensation system compares with other study states on these key metrics. This edition analyzes claims with injury dates between 2016 and 2021 (evaluated as of March 31, 2022). In some cases, we use a longer time frame to supply historical context for key metrics and to provide a broader context for monitoring changes in Illinois’ system performance. Where relevant, we include findings from other recent Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) studies to provide a more comprehensive picture of the Illinois workers’ compensation system.

Note that the results we report reflect experience on claims through March 2022, including non-COVID-19 claims only from the first and second years of the COVID-19 pandemic (March 2020 through September 2021). The study, therefore, provides a look at how the pandemic impacted non-COVID-19 workers’ compensation claims in the first two years of the pandemic.  

CompScope™ Benchmarks for Illinois, 23rd Edition. Evelina Radeva. April 2023. WC-23-03.

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