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Costly Delays in Reporting Workers’ Compensation Claims

womanonphoneMany employers allow too much time between a workers' comp injury and a report to the administrator handling their claims. The average time in California is 16 days between injury and notification.

Delay in reporting workers’ compensation claims is costly. The National Council on Compensation Insurance published studies show the cost of a claim increases by 4 percent for each day of delay in reporting. Claims that are filed between 11 and 20 days increase the cost of injury by 29 percent. Between 21 and 30 days, the increase is 39 percent.

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Don Dressler - Attorney/Risk Management Consultant

Architect of the Office Injury Prevention Training Kit

National leader in labor law, risk management and human resources solutions, Don Dressler, has been designing customized HR packages that significantly reduce workers compensation costs, protect employers from non-compliance, while providing effective worker training solutions to southern California companies for more than twenty years.