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 2017 to 2022 (evaluated as of March 31, 2023). 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 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 2023, including non-COVID-19 claims from the three years since the COVID-19 pandemic began (March 2020 through September 2022). The study, therefore, provides a look at how the pandemic impacted non-COVID-19 workers’ compensation claims in the first three years of the pandemic.

CompScope™ Benchmarks for Indiana, 24th Edition. Evelina Radeva. April 2024. WC-24-04.

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