Workers' Compensation

ICJ research on workers' compensation has become so pivotal that stakeholders are awaiting findings before crafting reform proposals

In 1996, the California Commission for Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation awarded the ICJ a contract to evaluate the state's Permanent Partial Disability System. This two-year project resulted in a key report describing the California workers' compensation system and calculating the wage losses experienced by workers injured on the job. It also spurred the development of the ICJ's extensive workers' compensation Research Centers.

Pursuing its goal of determining the adequacy and equity of current workers' compensation systems, the ICJ has been charged with researching a slate of issues that will help policymakers improve this important social safety net.

A distinguishing feature of the ICJ's workers' compensation program is its continuing effort to interpret and present research results to the entire workers' compensation community and to work with California's bipartisan commission to make headway on this contentious issue. ICJ staff have spent many hours attending meetings and discussing issues with stakeholders.

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