California employees’ compensation COVID-19 declare quantity continues to trace with the state’s fluctuating an infection traits, as the most recent month-to-month rely of COVID employees’ comp claims jumped 172% in December to the second highest degree of the 12 months because the Omicron variant unfold quickly throughout the state.
That’s in response to a California Employees’ Compensation Institute evaluation of claims reported to the state Division of Employees’ Compensation.
CWCI’s newest projection additionally exhibits that the December complete might finally enhance to 12,438 instances as soon as claims but to be filed or nonetheless underneath investigation are tallied.
The replace to CWCI’s COVID-19/non-COVID-19 Interactive Declare Software, which incorporates information on California employees’ comp claims from comparable durations of 2019, 2020, and 2021, exhibits that 181,770 COVID claims reported to the DWC for the reason that pandemic was declared in March 2020.
The most recent outcomes from the CWCI present the month-to-month COVID declare rely fell to a five-month low in November, then reversed course in December because the Omicron variant led to a wave of coronavirus instances all through the state.
Whereas extra claims with November and December damage dates are nonetheless being reported, the present rely of 8,292 COVID claims for December represents a one-month enhance of 172% and is already above the height degree reached in August throughout final summer time’s Delta surge, in response to CWCI.
The spike in declare quantity on the finish of the 12 months pushed the entire variety of COVID claims reported to the DWC for 2021 to 63,034, which is 10.0% of all 2021 work damage and sickness claims reported to the state.
That was higher than the 118,995 COVID claims reported for 2020, previous to the provision of COVID vaccines, when COVID instances accounted for 17.9% of all California employees’ comp claims reported to the state, in response to CWCI.
Nevertheless, with the Omicron surge on the finish of 2021, COVID claims as a p.c of all California employees’ comp claims greater than tripled from 6.6% in November to twenty.5% in December – the very best proportion since January 2021.
The most recent outcomes are from the January 10 replace to CWCI’s COVID-19/Non-COVID-19 Interactive Declare App, which integrates information from CWCI, DWC, and the Bureau of Labor and Statistics to supply info on California work damage claims from comparable durations of 2019, 2020, and 2021. The app is up to date biweekly and is available to the public. CWCI members and analysis subscribers can also entry an in depth abstract of the leads to CWCI Bulletin 22-01 on the group’s website.
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