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CWCI Finds Attorneys Involved in 80% of PD Claims

By Greg Jones (Senior Editor)

Friday, February 7, 2014 | 13

The California Workers' Compensation Institute said an analysis of claims from accident years 2005 to 2010 found an attorney was involved in 80.4% of permanent disability claims and 38.1% of all indemnity claims.Altogether, indemnity claims in which an attorney was involved accounted for $6.26 billion in paid losses and expenses, or more than 82% of all indemnity claim payments in the study sample, CWCI said. Permanent disability claims accounted for 95%, or $5.95 billion, of payments on the claims that were reviewed.A CWCI study from 2010 found that 43.8% of resolved claims in its Industr...

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