Workers' compensation is a very limited system only intended to provide benefits to those employees injured during the course and scope of their employment. Please understand that workers’ compensation is only one of many types of insurance that you might have. However, this type of insurance is...
WA: Workers’ Comp To Cover Health Care Workers/First Responders With COVID-19 Keep Employees Engaged, Informed During COVID-19 Threat, Expert Advises White Paper Explores WC Compensability Of COVID-19 Communication And Education Key To Keeping US Workers Safe From Deadly Coronavirus U.S...
workers in jobs where COVID-19 exposure is likely were made eligible for workers' compensation benefits, which otherwise would be denied because of state law that bars coverage for ordinary diseases of life.
as part of the PA ongoing response to Coronavirus, Governor Wolf have suspended some portions of the Workers’ Compensation Act, so you need to be well-aware of your rights and what you should do in case you get infected by COVID-19. Below are the answers to some important questions that...
Do I have to have to file a workers’ compensation claim every time one of my employees tests positive for COVID-19? No. The new law in California that went into effect on September 19, 2020, requires an employer to report a positive COVID-19 test to their workers’ com...
Am I Eligible for Workers’ Comp If I Get Injured Working From Home? As more and more people work remotely, the question has come up about what they could do or what their rights are if they are injured while working from home during COVID-19. For example, if an employee sets up a...
The Maine Workers’ Compensation Board met for its regular business meeting on December 8. Among the items discussed were COVID-19 claim statistics and an appeal accepted by the Law Court dealing with a fascinating statute of limitations issue. ...
COVID-19injury and illnessvulnerable workersagriculturePLANTSDepartment of Mechanical and Indistrial Engineering, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN, USA; University of Nebraska Medical Center Department of Health Promotion, Center for Reducing Health Disparities, 984340 Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE...
succumbed to the COVID-19 virus on 8/25/2020, the WCAB had the opportunity to apply the facts of his case to the new Labor Code § 3212.88. See the Noteworthy Panel Decision (NPD) of Payan v West Coast Auto Sales,2021 Cal. Wrk. Comp. P.D. LEXIS 222(Appeals Boa...
—“California COVID-19 workers’ comp claims soar,” by CalMatters’ Barbara Feder Ostrov:“Workers’ compensation claims for COVID-19 have spiked dramatically in the past two months, from about 4,700 in May to about 10,900 in Jun...