The New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health, a workplace safety advocacy group, said a report by a managing partner of a workers’ compensation claimants’ firm estimated that less than 10% of eligible workers in the Empire State have filed a claim for COVID-19.
The report, by Robert E. Grey, of Grey & Grey LLP, estimates that nearly 250,000 essential workers developed symptoms after being infected with COVID-19 at work in 2020.
According to the report, only 20,978 claims for work-related COVID were filed with the Workers’ Compensation Board. At the...
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