ICIS Industry Score Card: Restaurant Industry Claims Experience

In the midst of the ongoing shift in the California job market and the recent weakness in the state’s economy, job injury claims by restaurant workers rose from less than 5% of all California workers’ compensation claims in 2001 to 8% of the claims in 2008, while claim payments to restaurant workers jumped from 3.2% to 5.6% of paid losses. CWCI’s latest Industry Score Card takes an indepth look at workers’ comp claims filed by restaurant workers between AY 2000 and AY 2008.