Workers Compensation – claims trends –
Our thanks to the Insurance Information Institute for much of this information.
A National Council on Compensation Insurance study on the cost of claims filed by workers who are obese had findings similar to those to a 2007 Duke University study. From the Duke study:
* Workers who were morbidly obese filed 45 percent more claims and their medical costs were more than five times higher than those of nonobese workers.
* Workers who were overweight filed 9 percent more claims. Their costs were 1.5 times as high as people with “normal weights”. (I’m in trouble.)
Workplace injuries and death were down in 2009 vs 2008. The drops are significant enough that many experts attribute them to economic change rather than entirely to safety improvement.
For much more detail, follow this link to the III. Insurance Information Institute
