Roughly four-in-10 workers’ compensation claims come from workers with less than one year of tenure, a new report from the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California shows.
The report shows 40% of workers’ comp claims come from workers with less than one year of tenure, and those workers are more than twice as likely to have a claim relative to the statewide average.
The report, Impacts of Employee Tenure on Workers’ Compensation Claim Frequency in California, is on .
Other report findings include:
- Injuries differ among length of tenure: Workers with less than a year of tenure are more likely to have fall, struck or cut injuries, while longer-tenured workers tend to have more strain injuries.
- Workers with longer tenure tend to have a higher share of cumulative trauma indemnity claims.
- After adjusting for age, the average incurred losses on indemnity claims, valued at approximately 18 months from policy inception, are higher for longer-tenured injured workers.
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