New Reports Detail Injured Workers' Experience With Comp System

Three years after being hurt on the job, 14% of injured workers in Pennsylvania hadn’t returned to work, according to a new report from the Workers Compensation Research Institute. If workers returned to work but couldn’t maintain employment for more than a month due to their injury, that figure rose to 19%, the highest among 15 states included in WCRI’s study. The findings are part of a continuing series of reports from WCRI that are based on interviews with injured workers. WCRI on Thursday released new injured-worker outcome reports for Pennsylvania, Minnesota and Tennes...