In a recent case, a workers’ compensation administrative law judge had to determine, based on substantial medical evidence, whether it was reasonably probable that the claimant contracted COVID-19 as a result of a workplace exposure.
In early 2020, the Department of State Hospitals employed the applicant in the case of Dawson vs. Patton State Hospital; State Compensation Insurance Fund as a dietician at Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino.
The applicant sued her employer for workers’ compensation allegedly based on an industrial injury to her psyche and internal systems in the form of COVID-19, which she said that she contracted while at work.
