WCIRB: COVID-19 Claim Counts and Costs Decreasing

Claims for COVID-19 decreased significantly starting in February 2022 to about 2% of reported indemnity claims, according to the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California. The WCIRB said COVID-19 claims accounted for nearly one in every seven indemnity claims in the first few months of the pandemic. “In December 2020, amid the peak of the initial winter surge, nearly one-third of all indemnity claims were attributed to COVID-19,” the WCIRB reports. “Subsequently, following the vaccine rollout and a significant decline in spring 2021, the proportion o...