CWCI: Prompt Reporting Emerges as Area of Concern as COVID-19 Claim Count Drops

COVID-19 workers’ comp claims in California fell to a 16-month low in June, but the system has struggled with delayed reporting of COVID-related claims since the end of 2020, according to a new bulletin from the California Workers’ Compensation Institute. Despite a recent increase in COVID-19 cases due to the virus’s delta variant, CWCI reports 453 claims were filed in June. That beats the previous low of 668 claims reported in May. CWCI is projecting a total of 612 claims for June and 741 for May. The number of COVID-19 claims has been declining consistently since the hig...