An employee injured at work generally is limited to workers compensation benefits, which the worker is entitled to receive whether the employer was negligent or not. If an employee can prove he or she contracted COVID-19 at work, which California law makes easier if there is an outbreak in the workplace, the employee is eligible for (and limited to) workers compensation benefits.
But what if the employee contracted COVID-19 at work due to the employer’s inadequate safety measures, then transmitted the coronavirus to a spouse at home, and the spouse soon thereafter died from COVID-19?
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