TSA's Comp Costs Rise as Claim Count Drops

The Transportation Security Administration cut down its workers' compensation claims 20.9% from 2010 to 2014, but its claim costs rose 15.2% during the same period, federal inspectors have found. The Department of Homeland Security's inspector general found in a report issued Aug. 6 that the administration has been successful in reducing its workers' compensation caseload since meeting the recommendations the Office of the Inspector General made in 2007. After the report, TSA hired more workers' compensation program coordinators and implemented strategies to review long-term, ...