Senate Passes Hospital Worker Presumption

The California Senate passed a bill that would create a presumption that certain conditions and injuries are compensable for hospital workers. At the same time, the latest effort to create a single-payer health care system died without a vote in the Assembly. The Senate on Monday voted 21-9 to pass SB 213, by Sen. Dave Cortese, D-San Jose. The bill would create a presumption that certain cancers, musculoskeletal injuries, post-traumatic stress disorder and some infectious diseases and respiratory diseases — including COVID-19 — arose out of employment for hospital workers provid...