This study helps policymakers and other system stakeholders in Pennsylvania identify current cost drivers and emerging trends in a wide variety of performance measures of state workers’ compensation systems. This report provides meaningful comparisons between Pennsylvania and 16 other study states on key measures including indemnity benefits, duration of temporary disability, lump-sum settlements, medical payments, and benefit delivery expenses. It also examines how these metrics have changed from 2016 to 2021. In some cases, we use a longer time frame to supply historical context for key metrics. We also include information from other Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) studies to provide a more complete picture of the system in Pennsylvania. 

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 Pennsylvania, 23rd Edition. William Monnin-Browder. April 2023. WC-23-11.

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