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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.

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Are Workers’ Comp Insurers ready for what comes next in the COVID-19 crisis?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

What’s going on inside workers’ compensation operations has implications for Disability Management (DM) professionals and others (Human Resource personnel [HR], Return-to-Work Coordinators [RTWC], for example) who interact with them—all of whom may be dealing with similar issues in their own organizations.

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What is Workers’ Compensation?

Insperity

Benefits include wage-loss benefits (usually one-half to two-thirds of the employee’s average weekly wage), hospital and medical expenses, and death benefits. State agency administers the system. Develop a workers’ compensation team. Benefits include wage-loss, medical and death benefits. Make people accountable.