COVID-19 heroes must jump through hoops for 労働者s' comp
WASHINGTON (AP) - 称讃するd for their service and あられ／賞賛するd as everyday heroes, 必須の 労働者s who get the coronavirus on the 職業 have no 保証（人） in most 明言する／公表するs they'll qualify for 労働者s' 補償（金） to cover lost 給料 and 医療の care.
より小数の than one-third of the 明言する／公表するs have 制定するd 政策s that 転換 the 重荷（を負わせる） of proof for ニュース報道 of 職業-関係のある COVID-19 so 労働者s like first responders and nurses don't have to show they got sick by 報告（する）／憶測ing for a risky assignment.
審議 over 労働者s´ comp in the 明言する／公表するs is part of a much larger 国家の discussion about 義務／負債 for ウイルス （危険などに）さらす, with 共和国の／共和党のs in 議会 捜し出すing a 幅の広い 保護物，者 for 商売／仕事s in the next coronavirus 救済 法案.
And for most 従業員s going 支援する to 職業 場所／位置s as the economy 再開するs, there's even いっそう少なく 保護 than for 必須の 労働者s. In nearly all 明言する／公表するs, they have to 証明する they got the ウイルス on the 職業 to qualify for 労働者s' comp.
Nurse Dori Harrington of Manchester, Connecticut, said she got COVID-19 caring for 感染させるd 患者s at a nursing home, with 限られた／立憲的な 保護の gear. Harrington was 厳しく ill and 行方不明になるd five weeks of work, yet her 労働者s' comp （人命などを）奪う，主張する was 最初 否定するd on grounds that her 病気 was "not distinctively associated with, nor peculiar" to her 職業.
"It's 広大な／多数の／重要な to be 高く評価する／（相場などが）上がるd, but we need to be taken care of, too," said Harrington, who 結局 won her （人命などを）奪う，主張する with union help. "Nobody should have to fight to be taken care of when they were 簡単に doing their 職業 taking care of other people. It's obnoxious to me."
FILE - In this April 14, 2020, とじ込み／提出する photo FDNY firefighters gather to applaud 医療の 労働者s as …に出席するing 内科医 Mollie Williams, left, wears personal 保護の 器具／備品 予定 to COVID-19 関心s outside Brooklyn Hospital 中心 in New York. 必須の 労働者s are 称讃するd for their service and あられ／賞賛するd as everyday heroes. But in most 明言する／公表するs nurses, first responders and frontline 労働者s who get COVID-19 on the 職業 have no 保証（人） they'll qualify for 労働者s' comp to cover lost 給料 and 医療の care. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, とじ込み／提出する)
労働者s' 補償（金） is not health 保険, or an 失業 利益. The $56 billion, 明言する／公表する-level 保険 system is one of the nation's oldest forms of a social 契約. In 交流 for cove 激怒（する）, 労働者s give up the 権利 to 告訴する their 雇用者s for 職業-関係のある 害（を与える）s. 雇用者s 支払う／賃金 賞与金s to support the system. コンビナート／複合体 支配するs 異なる from 明言する／公表する to 明言する／公表する.
取引，協定ing with 職業-関係のある 傷害s is 公正に／かなり straightforward, but 病気s have always been trickier for 労働者s' comp, and COVID-19 seems to be in a class of its own.
"You don't know per se where you 吸い込むd that breath whereby you became 感染させるd," said 法案 Smith, 大統領，／社長 of the 労働者s´ 傷害 法律 & Advocacy Group, or WILG, a professional 協会 of lawyers 代表するing 労働者s.
You can still reach a 論理（学）の 結論, says University of Wyoming labor 法律 professor Michael Duff.
"When you are talking about 確かな 肉親，親類d of frontline 労働者s, out in the ざん壕s, day in and day out, that person starts to look like the coal 鉱夫 who is routinely exposed to a 危険な health 条件 because of their work," he explained.
Think hospital and nursing home 臨床の staff, first responders, and meat packing 労働者s, の中で others.
認めるing such realities, more than a dozen 明言する／公表するs have 制定するd 政策s known as "presumptions" that relieve 必須の 労働者s like Dori Harrington, the nurse from Connecticut, of having to 証明する how they 現実に got COVID-19 on the 職業.
The 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） 含むs 自由主義の 明言する／公表するs like California and 保守的な 明言する／公表するs like Kentucky, によれば WILG, the lawyers' group. California's 政策 stands out because it 保護するs all 労働者s, not just those in frontline 役割s.
At the 連邦の level, there's a 押し進める to 保護する 労働者s at the Transportation 安全 行政 and the 郵便の Service.
Duff 予報するs most 明言する／公表するs will be 気が進まない to 拡大する 保護s.
The 問題／発行する 伴う／関わるs 重要な costs and hard ロビーing. It 炭坑，オーケストラ席s 労働者s, labor groups, lawyers, and social 福利事業 支持するs against 雇用者s, 保険会社s, and even 地元の and 明言する／公表する 政府s that 雇う frontline 労働者s.
In Colorado, a 運動 to 制定する a COVID-19 presumption for 必須の 労働者s 立ち往生させるd in the 立法機関 over cost 関心s.
"At a time of community spread of a 病気 like this, it is not appropriate for a 労働者s' comp system to 行為／法令／行動する as a public safety 逮捕する," said Edie Sonn, 長，率いる of public 事件／事情／状勢s for Pinnacol 保証／確信, Colorado´s 主要な 労働者s' comp 保険会社, which …に反対するd the 成果／努力.
確かな 商売／仕事s would have seen 賞与金s rise up to 27%, she 追加するd.
産業 専門家 Stefan Holzberger of the AM Best credit 率ing 機関 said there's a 危険 of 重要な losses for 労働者s' comp 保険会社s, but there are also 可能性のある mitigating factors. The 底（に届く） line isn't （疑いを）晴らす yet.
"From what we see so far, the 普通の／平均（する） （人命などを）奪う，主張するs cost associated with a COVID-19 （人命などを）奪う，主張する is いっそう少なく than the loss associated with a typical 労働者s' comp （人命などを）奪う，主張する," said Holzberger. "Going to the hospital and getting a 実験（する） is a lot いっそう少なく than getting neck or 支援する 外科."
Another mitigating factor: workplace 傷害s went 負かす／撃墜する 劇的な in the 経済的な shutdown.
For 必須の 労働者s who got COVID-19 and 苦しむd through fever, 疲労，（軍の）雑役, shortness of breath, racking cough, and other symptoms, the 否定 or 受託 of a 労働者s' comp （人命などを）奪う，主張する can have a 深遠な 衝撃.
解雇する／砲火／射撃 alarm 視察官 Kenneth Larkin of Montevallo, 式の., said he was rebuffed by his former 雇用者 when he requested 労働者s' comp for a coronavirus 実験（する）. He had gotten sick soon after 検査／視察するing systems in the COVID-19 wing of a hospital.
"I think a 確かな number of 労働者s are 存在 villainized because they want to take care of themselves," said Larkin, who's 保持するd a lawyer. "It's hard for me as a human 存在 to swallow that, when you place the value of a person's health at いっそう少なく than the cost of a 実験（する）."
But nurse Debbie Koehler of 過密な住居, Ohio, said she felt 実証するd when her （人命などを）奪う，主張する was 受託するd by the 保険会社 for the rehab hospital where she 作品.
"It's just knowing that my 雇用者 is 活発に admitting that this wrong happened and they are 支払う／賃金ing for my therapy," she sai d.
FILE - In this April 22, 2020, とじ込み／提出する photo healthcare 労働者s, 含むing ER nurse Tamra Hill, 前線 left, wiping away 涙／ほころびs, at 地域s Hospital to thank Xcel Energy 乗組員 members, 含むing Paul Peikert, who had lined the street outside Regio ns to 迎える／歓迎する healthcare 労働者s at a morning 転換 change in St. Paul, Minn. より小数の than one-third of the 明言する／公表するs have 制定するd 政策s that 転換 the 重荷（を負わせる） of proof for ニュース報道 of 職業-関係のある COVID-19 so 労働者s like first responders and nurses don't have to show they got sick by 報告（する）／憶測ing for a risky assignment. (David Joles/星／主役にする Tribune 経由で AP, とじ込み／提出する)
FILE - In this April 28, 2020, とじ込み／提出する photo 医療の 職員／兵員 atte nd a daily 7 p.m. 賞賛 in their 栄誉（を受ける）, during the coronavirus pandemic outside NYU Langone 医療の 中心 in the Manhattan borough of New York. 必須の 労働者s are 称讃するd for their service and あられ／賞賛するd as everyday heroes. But in most 明言する／公表するs nurses, first responders and frontline 労働者s who get COVID-19 on the 職業 have no 保証（人） they'll qualify for 労働者s' comp to cover lost 給料 and 医療の care. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, とじ込み／提出する)
