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来源类型 | Report |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.7249/RRA1430-1 |
来源ID | RR-A1430-1 |
COVID-19 in the California Workers' Compensation System: A Study of COVID-19 Claims and Presumptions Under Senate Bill 1159 | |
Denise D. Quigley; Michael Dworsky; Nabeel Qureshi; Shannon Prier; Courtney A. Gidengil | |
发表日期 | 2021-12-29 |
出版年 | 2021 |
页码 | 256 |
语种 | 英语 |
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摘要 | With COVID-19 cases and deaths in California mounting in 2020, state policymakers enacted untested policies to cope with the most severe global pandemic in more than 100 years. One of those policies, Senate Bill 1159, facilitated access to workers' compensation (WC) benefits for select groups of workers. SB 1159 expanded access to WC benefits by establishing presumptions in the law that relieved certain workers — specifically frontline workers defined as health care and public safety employees, as well as workers whose job sites experienced a COVID-19 outbreak — of the burden of proving that the claimed injuries due to COVID-19 were related to work exposure. The authors use a mixed-methods (including both qualitative and quantitative methods) approach to evaluate the overall effects of COVID-19 claims on the California WC system and on the payment of WC benefits. They also analyze the effects of the different presumptions for COVID-19 established by SB 1159 and describe patterns of COVID-19 claim filing and claim outcomes by industry and occupation. The study found that COVID-19 claims accounted for 15 percent of all WC claims in the 18 months commencing at the beginning of 2020. COVID-19 claims were more likely to be initially denied than non–COVID-19 WC claims. The study also brought to light several challenges that the WC system experienced during the pandemic. For employers, these challenges primarily related to handling a large, fluctuating volume of claims within shortened time frames for claims investigations. |
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主题 | California ; Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) ; Health Legislation ; Wages and Compensation ; Workers' Compensation |
URL | https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA1430-1.html |
来源智库 | RAND Corporation (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/524665 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Denise D. Quigley,Michael Dworsky,Nabeel Qureshi,et al. COVID-19 in the California Workers' Compensation System: A Study of COVID-19 Claims and Presumptions Under Senate Bill 1159. 2021. |
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