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More States Push COVID-19 Claims to Work Comp; Potential Cost Anyone's Guess

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More States Push COVID-19 Claims to Work Comp; Potential Cost Anyone's Guess Claims Journal Regulators and lawmakers in more states are demanding that workers who claim they were sickened by COVID-19 get a fair hearing, if not an outright presumption in their favor. The Wyoming House of Representatives and Senate both passed a bill that creates a presumption that any workers’ covered by the state’s monopoly workers’ comp system had an increased risk of contracting COVID-19. Claimants will still be required to prove the disease was contracted from work. READ MORE

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