California nursing home workers died of COVID. The industry failed to tell state watchdogs
Sacramento Bee 2/18/2021 Jason Pohl, Dale Kasler, and Ryan Sabalow, The Sacramento Bee
Feb. 18 A year into the pandemic, California s workplace safety watchdog still doesn t know how many nursing home workers have contracted COVID-19 on the job and died, a Sacramento Bee review of state records shows.
California s health department regularly updates a list of COVID-19 infections and deaths at nursing homes. But only about half of those listed facilities have bothered to report the death to Cal/OSHA, the agency in charge of enforcing worker safety, according to the state records.
02/05/21
WorkersCompensation.com
Chicago, IL (WorkersCompensation.com) - The workers compensation industry has collectively seen tens of thousands of claims for COVID-19 contracted in the workplace, and those numbers continue to grow. Despite what you may have heard, many of these claims have incurred costs over $1 million. Additionally, businesses are seeing claims in other coverage lines, including employers liability, general liability, employment practices liability and even directors and officers liability.
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01/28/21
WorkersCompensation.com
Oakland, CA WorkersCompensation.com) - The monthly count of COVID-19 job injury claims reported to the California Division of Workers Compensation (DWC) soared to a record 32,549 cases in December, bringing the total number of COVID-19 claims for accident year (AY) 2020 to 103,712, or more than one out of every six workers comp claims with a 2020 injury date according to a new analysis by the California Workers Compensation Institute (CWCI). With additional year-end claims continuing to be filed, CWCI projects that the ultimate COVID-19 claim count for December will be 43,290 claims, while the projected count for all of AY 2020 is 117,989 COVID-19 claims.
New Wave of Virus Claims Hit California Workers’ Comp January 14, 2021
A California Workers’ Compensation Institute analysis of claims reported to the state Division of Workers’ Compensation as of Jan. 11 shows that the number of COVID-19 claims in the California workers’ compensation system more than tripled between October and November, then jumped another 64.2% to a record 23,483 claims in December.
A new CWCIU projection shows that the December total could climb to 37,573 cases once claims that are yet to be filed or still under investigation are added to the tally.
The latest figures show that after falling to a six-month low in September, monthly COVID-19 claim counts started trending up in October as a wave of coronavirus cases hit the state. Not all November and December claims have been reported, but the initial data from those months shows that as of Jan. 11, the DWC had recorded 14,298 COVID-19 claims with November injury dat
12/23/20
WorkersCompensation.com
Oakland, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) – With the number of confirmed coronavirus cases hitting record levels, California workers comp COVID-19 monthly claim volume, which fell sharply in August and September, is now trending up again, climbing 9.0% in October, then more than doubling in November according to a California Workers Compensation Institute (CWCI) review of claims reported to the state Division of Workers Compensation (DWC) as of December 14. Updated figures show that the number of COVID-19 workers comp claims reported to the state each month rose steadily from January through July of this year, when it peaked at 14,925 cases, then tailed off sharply at the end of the summer, dropping 56.5% in August to 6,499 claims, and falling another 34.7% in September to 4,247 claims. That downturn, however, was not long-lived, as the December 14 tally noted 4,628 COVID-19 claims from October (+9.0%) and 10,395 claims from November (+1