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This video features Sarah E. Stottlemyer, an Employment and Labor Law attorney based in Georgia.
Rob Rosenthal:
Is COVID-19 considered a work-related injury? We ask Atlanta attorney Sarah Stottlemyer in this AskTheLawyers™ Quick Question.
Sarah Stottlemyer:
First responders and medical personnel, if they contract COVID-19 that would be considered a work-related injury. There is something called an occupational disease statute that a lot of states have though, unfortunately, which says that an injury would be compensable if the person who contracted the injury on the job were not similarly exposed to it outside of the job. So when you have first responders and medical personnel that are dealing with positive COVID-19 patients every day, that's the reason why the legislators have come out and said that they will find those cases compensable. However, if you have, say, a Walmart worker, if his wife stayed at home only and all he did was go to Walmart back and forth, then we could possibly make the case for it to be compensable, but it is going to be tricky, and it's going to be a whole new area of the law that we're starting to investigate.
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