Current through the 2024 Fourth Special Session
Section 34A-3-203 - Workers' compensation claims(1) This part applies to a claim resulting from an exposure arising out of and in the course of a first responder's employment or service on or after March 21, 2020, and before June 1, 2021.(2) For purposes of establishing a workers' compensation claim under this part, the date of exposure is presumed to be the earlier of the day on which: (a) the first responder is diagnosed with COVID-19;(b) the first responder is unable to work because of a symptom of a disease that is later diagnosed as COVID-19; or(c) the first responder's employment or service as a first responder terminates, if the first responder is diagnosed with COVID-19 within two weeks after the day on which the first responder's employment or service as a first responder terminates. (3) Death benefits payable under this chapter are payable only if a claimant establishes by competent evidence that death was a consequence of or a result of COVID-19.Renumbered from § 34A-2-1103 and amended by Chapter 5, 2020SP5 General Session ,§ 3, eff. 6/25/2020.Added by Chapter 6, 2020SP3 General Session ,§ 3, eff. 4/22/2020.