Legislative Update Regarding Rebuttable Presumption Related to COVID-19 Workers’ Compensation Claims in New Jersey
By EsqSocial Corporation 08/06/21
The Governor of New Jersey previously signed legislation indicating that if an employee meets the qualification as an essential employee, and it was a very broad definition of employees who were covered, then if they contracted the COVID-19 virus, there was a rebuttable presumption that the exposure took place at work. The burden of disproving the exposure then fell on the respondent, and we know how difficult it is to prove a negative. This rebuttable presumption only lasts as long as the...
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