{"id":478,"date":"2020-04-22T16:58:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T20:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/?p=478"},"modified":"2020-04-22T16:58:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T20:58:47","slug":"illinois-seeks-to-protect-workers-compensation-claims-of-covid-19-claimants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/04\/22\/illinois-seeks-to-protect-workers-compensation-claims-of-covid-19-claimants\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Seeks to Protect Workers&#8217; Compensation Claims of COVID-19 Claimants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to protect essential workers during the COVID-19 health crisis, the Illinois Workers\u2019 Compensation Commission has issued an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.illinois.gov\/sites\/iwcc\/news\/Documents\/15APR20-Notice_of_Emergency_Amendments_CORRECTED-clean-50IAC9030_70.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">emergency rule<\/a>. Effective April 16, 2020, all first responders and front-line workers asserting a workers\u2019 compensation claim before the commission based on exposure to COVID-19 will be\u00a0<i>rebuttably presumed<\/i>\u00a0to have been exposed to the virus\u00a0through their work and for their\u00a0claim to have been caused by that exposure.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full text of this Duane Morris <em>Alert<\/em>, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/illinois_seeks_protect_workers_compensation_claims_covid19_claimants_0420.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit the firm website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to protect essential workers during the COVID-19 health crisis, the Illinois Workers\u2019 Compensation Commission has issued an\u00a0emergency rule. Effective April 16, 2020, all first responders and front-line workers asserting a workers\u2019 compensation claim before the commission based on exposure to COVID-19 will be\u00a0rebuttably presumed\u00a0to have been exposed to the virus\u00a0through their work &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/04\/22\/illinois-seeks-to-protect-workers-compensation-claims-of-covid-19-claimants\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Illinois Seeks to Protect Workers&#8217; Compensation Claims of COVID-19 Claimants&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[636,182,637],"ppma_author":[1043],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-essential-workers","tag-illinois","tag-workers-compensation"],"authors":[{"term_id":1043,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}