4. Illinois Governor signs COVID bill for key workers

In June, the Illinois Government signed into law JB Pritzker what is still the most sweeping assumption of compensation for workplace-acquired COVID-19.

The trend began with an executive order by the California government Gavin Newsom on May 6, a rebuttable presumption of COVID-19 compensation coverage for 16 different classes of workers in the state. Now, 17 states have either enacted laws or issued executive orders that create a disproven assumption of compensation for certain classes of workers who believe they acquired coronavirus at work. this year's fourth most read compensation for workers on the website Business Insurance .

Illinois HB 2455 made it easier for frontline and key workers who hire COVID-1

9 at work to receive compensation to workers. The law also provided lethal benefits for first responders who were probably infected with COVID-19 in service and revised state code to increase unemployment benefits and sick pay and leave for workers affected by the virus.

Michigan is the latest state to create a COVID-19 rebuttable presumption through an executive order issued by the Gretchen Whitmer government in March, but labor industry leaders listed further expansion of rebuttable assumptions as a key issue until 2021, according to a study from December by National Council on Compensation Insurance

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