This report compares the performance of the Indiana state workers’ compensation system with 16 other states, focusing on income benefits, overall medical payments, duration of temporary disability, litigiousness, benefit delivery expenses, timeliness of payment, and other metrics. It also examines how these system performance metrics have changed primarily from 2016 to 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 Indiana’s system performance. Where relevant, we include findings from other recent Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) studies to provide a more comprehensive picture of Indiana’s 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 Indiana, 23rd Edition. Evelina Radeva. April 2023. WC-23-04.

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