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

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

The adjudicative decision for a workers’ compensation claim will become more complex as the risk differential between work and non-work exposures equalize. If such a treatment existed, its cost might be accepted as a medical expense in an accepted workers’ compensation claim made by a worker with test-confirmed COVID-19 but no symptoms.