WORKERS’ COMPENSATION LIABILITY FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES STATE BY STATE


VERMONT

Vermont is a “positional-risk” doctrine jurisdiction. The positional risk doctrine holds that an injury is compensable if it would not have occurred but for the fact that the employment placed the employee in the position where he/she was injured. Thus, if the injury occurred at work, it is generally accepted as work-related, regardless of the risk to the general public. This doctrine is certainly a lower standard than some of the other jurisdictions; however, in cases of infectious diseases, an employee is still required to prove how and when they were infected.



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