Increased Risk of Exposure Could Result in Comp Paying for Coronavirus Testing, Treatment

The rapid spread of COVID-19, also known as the coronavirus, raises some interesting questions for the field of workers' compensation, including what circumstances would make an infection compensable. Elliot Schreur, research director for the Workers’ Injury Law & Advocacy Group, said that generally, workers must be able to prove employment put them at an “increased risk” of contracting a disease. “On the question of whether coronavirus is compensable, we would have to consider the case law in each state individually,” Shreur said. “To look general...