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Compensation benefits

In 2010, the accident insurance institutions responsible for the industrial and public sectors paid compensation amounting to 8.862 billion euro following insurance claims. These payments encompassed services, cash payments and payments in kind to victims of accidents and occupational disease and to surviving dependants.

3.328 billion euro were paid for curative treatment and for medical, occupational and social rehabilitation measures. This figure was 6.7 % higher than in the previous year. A further 5.534 billion euro were paid in the form of pensions, lump-sum benefits, allowances and similar expenditure (+0.9 %).

 

Accident insurance in industrial and public sector    
  2009 2010 Change in %
Compensation benefits, total1 8,603,811,032 8,862,202,463 | + | 3.0
Of which:        
Curative treatment, rehabilitation 3,118,598,601 3,327,968,297 + 6.7
Financial compensation1 5,485,212,431 5,534,234,166 | + | 0.9

1 Modifications to the account system from the year under review 2010; comparisons with last year only partly possible; e.g. financial compensation incl. new account 589 "payments for accident investigations", formerly part of the procedural costs.

In the area of pupil accident insurance, compensation payments totalling a further 442 million euro were made in 2010. Of this, 349 million euro were accounted for by curative treatment and rehabilitation measures (+4.3 % more than in the previous year) and 93.4 million euro by pensions and similar payments (+5.0 %).

 

Pupil accident insurance    
  2009 2010 Change in %
Compensation benefits, total1 423,172,832 441,885,375 | + | 4.4
Of which:        
Curative treatment, rehabilitation 334,229,804 348,520,572 + 4.3
Financial compensation1 88,943,027 93,364,804 | + | 5.0

1 Modifications to the account system from the year under review 2010; comparisons with last year only partly possible; e.g. financial compensation incl. new account 589 "payments for accident investigations", formerly part of the procedural costs.

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