Law Firm Creates Flowchart to Follow Newsom's Executive Order on COVID Presumption

A California workers’ compensation defense firm has published a flowchart for handling COVID-19 claims under a presumption created by Gov. Gavin Newsom’s executive order earlier this month. California-based Mullen & Filippi created the chart to help determine whether COVID-19 claims qualify for Newsom’s rebuttable presumption, according to Paula White, administrative managing senior partner at the firm. The flowchart is broken up into two sections: one for deciding when COVID claims are presumed to be occupational, and a second for information about apportionment, compe...