Workers’ Compensation Claims

The Workforce Got Older and Newer at the Same Time: What Coate and Hendrick Showed Us at AIS 2026

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A pop-art hourglass framed by lightning bolts, illustrating workforce demographic shifts behind AIS 2026's injury-pattern data.

Patrick Coate and Paul Hendrick paired their AIS 2026 sessions to make a quiet but unmistakable case: the workers’ comp book of 2030 will look meaningfully different from today’s. Senior Solutions Advisor Ryan Smith reads what their data on aging workers, new hires, and industry mix means for 2026 underwriting and claims.

Demographics, Injury Patterns, and What the Data Says for Workers’ Comp

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Editorial collage illustration of three overlapping paper panels of varied sizes populated with halftone silhouette figures in uneven groupings, with one figure walking between panels, representing the shifting demographic composition of the American workforce.

The American workforce doesn’t look the way it did five years ago. Workers are older, in different industries, and in different states — and the injury patterns are shifting with them. Here’s what the data says.