Workers’ compensation benefits allow injured workers to recover compensation when they get sick or get hurt as a direct result of doing their jobs. Unlike in a typical personal injury claim ...

The order streamlines workers' compensation claims and establishes that any essential worker infected with COVID-19 contracted the virus on the job.

Successful workers’ compensation claims are paid by either the employer or its insurer. ... and many of those making claims in California played in the 1970s and 1980s, when salaries were far lower.