03/03/2017
system needs to be done if California lawmakers want their work comp system to look more like other states.
California employers are well aware that their work comp system is unique. Last years biennial benchmark study by the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services showed an average
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12/01/2016
study state WCRI concluded.
The study states included Massachusetts California Michigan Texas Kentucky Minnesota North Carolina Georgia Arkansas Florida Pennsylvania Illinois Louisiana New Jersey Iowa Virginia and Indiana.
The WCRI reports states however that overall costs per
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12/01/2016
Business and Consumer Affairs releases a report ranking states' workers' compensation rates every other year.
View the 2016 Oregon Workers' Compensation Premium Rate Ranking study here.
The 2014 study is available here.
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11/30/2016
were 18 higher than the median for 18 study states which included California Texas parts of the Midwest and the Southeast the Workers Compensation Research Institute concluded in an October report.
The cost of workers compensation for Illinois businesses is among the highest in the nation
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11/16/2016
median for the 18 study states the Workers Compensation Research Institute concluded.
Between 2012 and 2014 for claims with an average maturity of 12 months medical payments grew on average 3.1 per year driven mainly by payments to ambulatory surgery centers the report states.
Payments per
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11/10/2016
expensive premium rates according to the biennial 2016 Oregon Workers Compensation Premium Rate Ranking Summary issued last month by the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services.
New York was fourth in the 2014 study and now has a rate of 2.83 per 100 of payroll or 154 of the study
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11/01/2016
Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services.
The latest biennial interstate rate comparison said California employers paid an average of 3.24 per 100 of payroll 76 more than the median of 1.85 in Alabama.
California also topped the Oregon study in 2012 with average charged rates that
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10/28/2016
each report published since 2000.
Peter Melton a spokesman for the California Division of Workers Compensation said the biennial rate study is based on the industrial mix in Oregon and does not reflect actual costs in California.
And since the 2012 workers compensation reforms were enacted
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10/24/2016
' Compensation Premium Rate Ranking Summary releasing statements congratulating themselves on keeping rates low. Ohio and Oregon have also done so this week.
There hasn't been a peep from the agencies with the most expensive rates such as California and New Jersey. At a rate of 3.24 per 100 of payroll
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10/21/2016
private employers and 4 for public employers Vance said.
The Oregon study lists the cheapest state for employers as North Dakota with a premium rate of 0.89 per 100 of payroll and the most expensive as California with a premium rate of 3.24 per 100 of payroll. View a summary of the study
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