This study helps policymakers and other system stakeholders in Louisiana identify current cost drivers and emerging trends in indemnity benefits, medical payments, and benefit delivery expenses.

It compares the performance of the Louisiana workers’ compensation system with 17 other states, focusing on income benefits, costs, overall medical payments, use of benefits, duration of temporary disability, benefit delivery expenses, timeliness of payment, and other metrics.

Additionally, the study examines how these system performance metrics have changed, mainly from 2018 to 2023, for claims at various claim maturities. We analyze claims with experience through 2024 for injuries up to and including 2023, and, in some cases, we use a longer time frame to supply historical context.

The results reflect claims experience through March 2024, including non-COVID-19 claims. As a result, the study provides a detailed look at how the pandemic-related disruptions affected non-COVID-19 workers’ compensation claims in the early pandemic years (2019–2021) and more recently (2021–2023).

CompScope™ Benchmarks for Louisiana, 2025 Edition. Carol A. Telles. April 2025. WC-25-08.

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