"The National Safety Council estimates that employers pay almost $1 billion per week in direct costs and almost four times that amount for indirect costs related to workers’ compensation.”
-Workers’ Compensation Networks Evolve to Meet Changing Needs of Today’s Market, Investment Business Weekly, September 20, 2009
“The direct costs of Workers’ Compensation often represent only 20-30% of the overall injury expenses.”
-Eight Mistakes Employers Make When Workers’ Compensation Rates go Down,” Charleston Gazette, February 24, 2008
“Direct costs comprise 29 percent, and indirect costs 71%, of total injury costs.”
-A Dangerous Business: Costs of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses,” PBS Frontline
“For every dollar of workers’ comp cost that can be driven down, there is typically about $8 in indirect costs that will be saved as well.”
-Agency forms workers’ compensation carrier, Rough Notes, April 2009