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Temporary Total Disability for Work injury: What will Workers’ Compensation pay?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

Work-related injury not only physical and mental pain, but any resulting disability also raises immediate questions Injured workers and family members often turn to their human resource (HR) and disability management (DM) professionals to provide guidance on workers’ compensation issues.

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

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

For example, in British Columbia, the test for work-relatedness is “causative significance”, meaning the worker’s employment must have been of causative significance in producing the disease. To satisfy the causative significance test, the worker’s employment must have been more than a trivial or insignificant aspect.