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Percentage of Claims with More Than 7 Days of Lost Time in which Date of First Indemnity Payment Was Within 21 Days from Date of Injury, 2005/2006

Notes: 2005/2006 refers to claim arising in October 2004 through September 2005, evaluated as of March 2006. The measure here does not purport to show compliance with individual state requirements for timely payment and will differ from data from the workers' compensation agency. The WCRI data include claims that were denied and/or litigated but paid within the evaluation cutoff, as well as claims in which the workers were not continuously disabled from the date of injury, so the obligation to pay did not arise until later in the claim.

* The 14-state median is the average of the states ranked 7th and 8th on a given measure; those states change depending on the measure being evaluated.

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