How WC System Handles COVID Claims Will Depend on Legislation and Litigation, Expert Say

There are many questions about how California’s workers’ compensation system will handle a possible deluge of claims related to the COVID-19 pandemic. For now, frustrated and curious stakeholders must wait for answers to some of their most pressing queries. “We don’t know what we don’t know,” said Jeff Adelson, a Southern California-based workers’ compensation defense attorney who moderated a discussion Friday during WorkCompCentral’s first online conference. A wait-and-see approach was a common refrain from some of the five panelists, who ...