This 2025 edition of CompScope™ Benchmarks for Michigan helps policymakers and other system stakeholders identify current cost drivers and emerging trends in a wide variety of performance measures of state workers’ compensation systems. This report provides meaningful comparisons between Michigan and 17 other study states on key measures including income benefits, duration of temporary disability, lump-sum settlements, medical payments, and benefit delivery expenses.

It also examines how these metrics have changed from 2018 to 2023. In some cases, we use a longer time frame to supply historical context for key metrics. We also include information from other Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) studies to provide a more complete picture of the system in Michigan.

Note that the results we report reflect experience on claims through March 2024, including non-COVID-19 claims since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States in March 2020. The study, therefore, provides a look at how the pandemic impacted non-COVID-19 workers’ compensation claims.

CompScope™ Benchmarks for Michigan, 2025 Edition. Terence Cawley. April 2025. WC-25-10.