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Can a worker claim workers’ compensation for COVID-19 exposure, illness or quarantine?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

The presence of disease and the history of exposure in the occupation or industry defined typically establishes a presumptive (although rebuttable) work-related cause, opening the door to workers’ compensation claims for medical costs, rehabilitation, financial compensation, survivor benefits, and death benefits.

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Workers’ Compensation Insurance Arrangements: Does the model make a difference? Part 1

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

Requiring employers provide financial compensation to workers or their families for work-related injury, illness and death is central to achieving this objective. Mutualized former state funds may be present in the market. There are no jurisdictions with competitive state funds.