NCCI, Actuaries Chart COVID Compensability Laws in States

With the rapidly changing state laws on COVID-19 claims, insurers, employers and workers are asking: Where and when is the disease considered compensable? Two national organizations have provided some answers. The National Council on Compensation Insurance on Friday released a 24-page brief and comparison of statutes, in all 37 NCCI-rated states, that relate to compensability, occupational diseases, diseases of life and presumptions for the coronavirus illness in workers. One question that continues to be asked, almost four months after the pandemic began in the U.S., is “wh...