Florida WC One of The Costliest

Florida‘s per-claim workers‘ compensation costs for all paid claims came out to be higher than most states analyzed and are growing at a double-digit rate, according to a new study by the Workers Compensation Research Institute. The Cambridge, Mass.-based nonprofit research group found in its study that a workers‘ comp claim in Florida cost an average of $3,081 for 1999 claims evaluated in mid-2000. This average figure for Florida was some 18 percent higher than the median of the 11 large states also examined in the study. Other states included in the WCRI study were: California, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin.