Injury/Illness Reporting Procedures Changing, Currently No Impact on Policyholders/Employers

Policyholders may have heard changes are in the works regarding reporting work-related injuries and illnesses. State Fund wants to ease any confusion you may have by clarifying the situation.

As things stand now, it’s business as usual, with no new action required on your part. Employers must continue to file a complete first report of occupational injury or illness within five days of knowledge of an injuryusing the existing Form 5020/SCIF Form 3067. If the original injury results in death, employers shall file an amended report with the insurer within five days of knowledge of death.

New legislation passed last fall requires all insurers, including State Fund, to file injury reports to the Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) using the electronic format only. This pertains to just insurance providers, not policyholders. The intent of this legislation is to eliminate paper copy submissions and move to a completely electronic process. State Fund already transmits the relevant information from the form electronically to the DWC, which helps the environment.

Reporting requirement changes for insurers will become effective once the regulations are finalized by the DWC, which may also modify the existing form during the process. State Fund will be monitoring and responding to the regulatory-change process as it unfolds, and we will make necessary changes in our existing electronic filing process, as well as provide policy holders with the revised report form, if applicable. For now, though, employer reporting procedures remain status quo.