NASI Data Shows Golden State Largest Comp System in Nation

California’s workers’ compensation system is the largest in the country and possibly the world, according to a California Workers’ Compensation Institute bulletin summarizing data released by the National Academy of Social Insurance. California accounted for 12% of covered jobs, 14.3% of covered wages and 19.5% of cash and medical benefits paid to injured workers in 2018, according to the bulletin. Insured and self-insured employers covered nearly 143 million workers and $8.2 trillion in covered wages throughout the U.S. in 2018. Benefit payments totaled $62.9 billion, with...