Workers’ Compensation
Ca. Workers' Comp. Quarterly 2020, Vol. 33, No. 2
Content
- Apportionment Now: Where We Are After Justice, Hikida, and Lindh
- California's Troubled Qme System: You Get What You Pay For
- Managing the Ptsd Presumption
- New Turn on the Apportionment Road: Applying Apportionment Law to the Conclusive Presumption of Labor Code Section 4662(a)
- Psychiatric Injury As a Compensable Consequence of an Industrial Injury—There Are Some Limits
- The Key to Mediation Success
- Workers' Compensation Section 2019-2020 Executive Committee Roster
- Alleged Covid-19 Work-Related Injury or Illness: a Guide to Determining When an Employer Must Provide a Claim Form
Alleged COVID-19 Work-Related Injury or Illness: A Guide to Determining When an Employer Must Provide a Claim Form
The Hon. Raymond F. Correio (Ret.)
Gardena, California
Introduction
Under which circumstances does an employer have a duty to provide a DWC-1 claim form related to an alleged COVID-19 work-related injury or illness? There is clearly a need for guidance and clarification in this area, given the daily increase in the number of COVID-19 cases being reported throughout California at the time of this writing and the number of employees who have already filed COVID-19 workers’ compensation claims. At the present time it is difficult to predict the number of employees who, in the foreseeable future, will file worker’s compensation claims alleging they were exposed to or contracted COVID-19 as a result of their employment.