Rand: Workers With Indemnity Claims Lose 20% of Pre-Injury Wages

California workers injured in 2013 who received indemnity benefits were earning about 20% less than they would have, while permanently disabled workers earned about 31% less two years after the date of injury, according to a new Rand Corp. study. That compares to a 7% earnings loss suffered by all workers who filed injury claims, including medical-only cases. Although Rand said data on permanent data claims was not fully mature, it estimated that the benefit increase in the Senate Bill 863 reform measure passed in 2012 will erase more than half of the earnings losses suffered b...