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Common Injuries
Infectious Diseases & COVID-19 Exposure at Work
First responders and healthcare workers do not get to choose whether to answer the call. [State] workers' compensation recognizes what that means when the call carries disease.
Overview
Occupational infection is a real workers' compensation injury.
Coverage, eligibility, benefit amounts, and claim procedures vary by state and retirement plan. We review the facts and help you understand your options.
For police officers, firefighters, EMS, corrections officers, and healthcare workers, an occupational infection can produce lasting consequences: hospitalization, cardiac and pulmonary complications, long-COVID neurological and cognitive symptoms, and in the worst cases, dependency claims for surviving families.
Benefits
Benefits you may be entitled to.
Workers' compensation medical care
Coverage for hospitalization, medication, follow-up care, pulmonology, cardiology, and treatment of long-COVID and post-infectious complications.
Temporary total & partial disability
Coverage, eligibility, benefit amounts, and claim procedures vary by state and retirement plan. We review the facts and help you understand your options.
Permanent partial disability
Compensation for permanent pulmonary, cardiac, or neurological impairment resulting from the infection.
Permanent total disability
For workers whose post-infectious complications prevent any return to gainful employment.
duty disability
For sworn first responders whose infection produces a duty-related disability, Public retirement Police & Fire or Public retirement duty-disability pension benefits are frequently available.
Dependency & survivor benefits
Coverage, eligibility, benefit amounts, and claim procedures vary by state and retirement plan. We review the facts and help you understand your options.
[State] law
How infectious diseases are covered under [State] law.
Eligibility, covered conditions, deadlines, and benefit amounts depend on state law and the applicable retirement plan. We review medical records, employment history, and available claim options with you.
COVID-19 first responder presumption
Coverage, eligibility, benefit amounts, and claim procedures vary by state and retirement plan. We review the facts and help you understand your options.
Bloodborne pathogens
Exposures to hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and HIV — through needlesticks, assaults, or contact with body fluids — are compensable occupational injuries when the exposure occurred in the course of employment. Prompt reporting and baseline testing are essential.
Airborne and infectious exposure
Tuberculosis, meningococcal exposure, and other communicable diseases can qualify as occupational diseases when the exposure is tied to work. Documentation of the exposure event or population served makes or breaks these claims.
Long-COVID and post-infectious complications
Persistent pulmonary, cardiac, cognitive, and neurological symptoms following COVID-19 can support ongoing wage-loss, medical, and permanency claims. These claims require careful medical development and, often, independent medical opinion.
How we help
Occupational-infection claims for the workers who kept showing up.
Coverage, eligibility, benefit amounts, and claim procedures vary by state and retirement plan. We review the facts and help you understand your options.
- Free case review with attorneys who handle [State] occupational-disease claims.
- Careful documentation of exposure events, workplace population, and PPE limitations.
- Coordination with pulmonology, cardiology, and infectious-disease specialists.
- public retirement duty-disability applications for sworn first responders.
- Contingent fee — no fee unless we recover benefits on your behalf.
Talk to a [State] work-comp attorney today.
Free, confidential case review. [Fee Policy]