COVID Cases Included in NCCI Court Update

A federal court in California ruled that maintaining a safe workplace is part of the grand bargain of workers’ compensation, while the New York Workers’ Compensation Board found that a positive test was prima facie medical evidence for a COVID-19 claim, the National Council on Compensation Insurance reported in its November 2020 national court case update. NCCI highlighted cases involving exclusive remedy, cannabis, air ambulance reimbursement rates and the use of third-party guides — primarily different editions of the American Medical Association’s Guides to the Eval...