The Connecticut Workers Compensation Act (Act) provides wage replacement and medical benefits for employees who suffer a work-related injury or illness, including certain occupational diseases (defined in the Act to mean “any disease peculiar to the occupation in which the employee was engaged and due to causes in excess of the ordinary hazards of employment”). Proving an occupational disease arose out of employment can be difficult to do for highly contagious, long-incubation, community-spread diseases like COVID-19.
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