Longshore Performance Page

In Fiscal Year 2010, the Longshore Division adopted a new set of performance measures aimed at improving program effectiveness by facilitating the prompt delivery of benefits to injured workers and their families. Two new performance measures target the timeliness of the Employer's First Report of Injury and the First Payment of Compensation, thereby improving initial claims processing and benefit delivery outcomes. The "First Report of Injury" measure tracks the time from the date of the injury or death, or the date of the employer's knowledge of the injury and the onset of disability, whichever is later, to the date the Longshore District Office receives the Employer's First Report of Injury (Form LS-202). The "First Payment" measure tracks the time it takes the employer or insurance carrier to issue the First Payment of Compensation after the worker becomes disabled for work or after the worker's death.

Beginning October 1, 2019, performance targets aim to increase the percentage of cases in which employers submit their First Reports of Injury within 20 days and employers and carriers issue the First Payments of Compensation within 28 days. Performance results are shown in the tables below. The DBA performance measures were introduced in 2010, and the non-DBA measures in 2011.

Performance results are shown in the tables below.

Table 1. Percent of 1st Reports of Injury Filed Within 20 Days

Fiscal Year	Target - DBA Cases	Result - DBA Cases	Target - non-DBA Cases	Result - non-DBA Cases
2020	88%	89%	88%	92%

Table 2. Percent of 1st Payments Issued Within 28 Days

Fiscal Year	Target - DBA Cases	Result - DBA Cases	Target - non-DBA Cases	Result - non-DBA Cases
2020	70%	71%	88%	88%

Table 3. Percent of 1st Reports of Injury Filed Within 30 Days

Fiscal Year	Target - DBA Cases	Result - DBA Cases	Target - non-DBA Cases	Result - non-DBA Cases
2019	88%	94%	89%	94%
2018	88%	94%	89%	95%
2017	88%	94%	89%	94%
2016	88%	92%	87%	93%
2015	85%	91%	85%	89%
2014	83%	89%	85%	87%
2013	83%	85%	85%	86%
2012	80%	85%	85%	86%
2011	75%	79%	78%	79%
2010	65%	74%	N/A	72%
2009 (baseline)	N/A	55%

Table 4. Percent of 1st Payments Issued Within 30 Days

Fiscal Year	Target - DBA Cases	Result - DBA Cases	Target - non-DBA Cases	Result - non-DBA Cases
2019	68%	69%	87%	90%
2018	68%	78%	87%	88%
2017	67%	71%	86%	88%
2016	65%	70%	86%	89%
2015	65%	67%	85%	88%
2014	62%	63%	85%	87%
2013	62%	67%	85%	87%
2012	60%	63%	85%	85%
2011	58%	56%	83%	85%
2010	50%	55%	N/A	81%
2009 (baseline)	N/A	43%