CWCI: Many Workers With Non-COVID Claims Got Faster Treatment Than Before Pandemic

Some workers’ compensation experts feared the COVID-19 pandemic would negatively affect initial access to care for California workers who filed non-virus-related claims last year.  An analysis by the California Workers’ Compensation Institute, however, found that not only did access to care for many workers not change at all, but some actually were able to receive treatment more quickly than in the year prior to the pandemic. “As we were planning our research agenda, one of the biggest concerns we wanted to examine was how all the changes in the last year impacted ...