From Name

From Email

To Name

To Email

Message

Employees who had COVID can now file workers' compensation claims in CT

from

Employees who had COVID can now file workers' compensation claims in CT Governor Lamont issued an executive order allowing employees who contracted COVID-19 while working at essential businesses between March 10 and May 20 to file for workers' compensation benefits. The Executive Order sets up a new "rebuttable presumption" that any employee who initiated a claim for workers compensation benefits and who missed a day or more of work between March 10, 2020 and May 20, 2020 due either to a diagnosis of COVID-19 or due to symptoms that were diagnosed as COVID-19, will be determined to have contracted COVID-19 as an occupational disease arising out of and in the course of employment. READ MORE

more