Baselines for Evaluating the Impact of the 2005 Reforms in Illinois: CompScope™ Benchmarks, 7th Edition.

CompScope™ benchmarks provide the most meaningful comparisons currently available for more than 60 system performance measures for fourteen large states. The states in this 7th edition of CompScope™— Arkansas, California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin—represent over 50 percent of the nation’s workers’ compensation benefit payments.  

 This comprehensive reference book provides useful information on two central questions:  

• How does the performance of a state system compare with that of other states?
• How is workers' compensation system performance changing over time?

This report can help policymakers and others benchmark state system performance or a company’s workers’ compensation program. The benchmarks also provide an excellent baseline for tracking the effectiveness of policy changes and identifying important trends. Comparisons are more meaningful than those commonly seen, because they measure how different systems would perform if a similar set of claims were dropped into each system.  

The study used data from claims from injury years 1999 through 2004, evaluated as of March 31 of each year from 2000 through 2005, from WCRI’s Detailed Benchmarking/Evaluation database containing over 22 million claims. The report contains separate state reports for 11 of the 14 study states (California, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Wisconsin).