Breaking New Ground, Beshear Orders Presumption for Grocery Clerks, Postal Workers

More and more states have ordered or encouraged insurers and employers to provide workers' compensation benefits to first responders and, in some cases, health workers who've been hit by the coronavirus. Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has taken it to a new level, ordering a presumption that many more types of public- and private-sector workers sickened by COVID-19 contracted it through employment and are eligible for temporary total disability. Beshear's executive order, posted Thursday, notes that health care workers, first responders, corrections officers, domestic violence she...