WCRI Estimates Workers Covered by Presumptions in Five States

More than 266,000 workers are likely to be covered by COVID-19 presumptions or temporary statute changes in Alaska, Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky and Missouri, according to the first in a series of new studies released by the Workers Compensation Research Institute. And while that could sound like a large figure, it represents just a small fraction of the overall number of employees eligible for workers’ compensation coverage in those states, according to the study. More than 9.3 million workers are eligible for basic comp coverage in those five states, but very few of them are identifie...