Study Finds Shorter Disability With Earlier Injury Reporting

A study by the Liberty Mutual Research Institute adds to a growing body of evidence that the outcome of workers’ compensation claims is better when an injury is reported sooner — a concept that some employers are starting to embrace. The findings appear in this month’s edition of the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. The Liberty Mutual researchers looked at three different types of lag time in a claim and how that related to the length of time the injured worker was on disability. They analyzed 64,004 claims involving lower back pain from a large workers&r...