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Oakland – The number of California workers’ compensation death claims more than doubled last year as the pandemic resulted in 866 COVID death claims, bringing the total number of job-related death claims for the year to 1,563, up from 748 in 2019 according to a new California Workers’ Compensation Institute (CWCI) analysis. The analysis also found that despite a sharp drop in work-related COVID cases from January through June of this year, an additional 166 COVID death claims were reported for the first half of 2021, for a total of 1,032 COVID death claims in the first 18 months of the pandemic.
CWCI’s review of California workers’ compensation COVID-19 death claim trends and characteristics uses data on COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 claims with January 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021 dates of injury that were reported to the state Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) as of July 26. The study encompassed all 148,222 COVID-19 claims for the 18-month study period (including the 1,032 COVID death claims) and 899 non-COVID death claims reported for the same period. Among the findings:
CWCI’s review of California workers’ compensation death claims has been released as a Spotlight Report, which is available free under the Research tab at http://www.cwci.org/.