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Workers’ comp injuries may take twice as long to heal

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Insurance publisher Risk & Insurance highlights research suggesting workplace injuries take about twice as long to recover as injuries that occur outside work.

The article frames the longer recovery time as a key driver behind the high cost of workers’ compensation claims, arguing that understanding the recovery gap is essential to reducing expenses.

It notes that the disparity has been studied and that factors such as fraud, secondary gain, and malingering do not appear to explain the difference in recovery outcomes, according to the piece.

Instead, the author points to an injured worker’s mindset about how the injury occurred as the distinguishing factor, suggesting that workplace and non-workplace injuries may be physically similar aside from how they are perceived.

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