If a worker in California contracts the COVID-19 virus, changes in the state’s workman’s compensation (WC) laws will be very clear where he or she caught it – on the job.
In an order handed down last week by Governor Gavin Newsom, current workers’ compensation law was changed so that any diagnosis of the virus “shall be presumed to arise…in the course of employment.”
“This coverage is far broader than similar presumptions established by other states, which have generally been limited to a narrow...