Golden State Accounts for Nearly 20% of U.S. Benefits

Injured workers in California received nearly 20% of the $181.4 billion in medical and indemnity benefits paid by state and federal workers’ compensation programs between 2010 and 2012, according to data from the National Academy of Social Insurance. During this period, California’s workers’ compensation system accounted for about 11.4% of all covered workers in the country and 13% of covered wages. The NASI data underscores the importance of the state’s workers’ compensation system from a national perspective, according to a California Workers’ Compensatio...