Benefit Delivery Expenses Account for 15% of Claim Costs, WCRI Says

Benefit delivery costs account for about 15% of the total cost of workers’ compensation claims involving lost time and are divided nearly equally between medical cost containment and litigation expenses, according to new data from the Workers Compensation Research Institute. But benefit delivery costs varied among 18 states examined, ranging from 11% of total claim costs in Wisconsin to 23% in California, Evelina Radeva said during the WCRI annual conference in Phoenix this month. The figures were from claims arising in 2015 with more than seven days of lost time, evaluat...