WORKERS’ COMPENSATION LIABILITY FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES STATE BY STATE



MAINE

Maine also utilizes the “positional risk” doctrine. As noted above, 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. Again, in order to prove a claim for COVID-19 under the positional risk doctrine, an employee would be required to prove that they were at work when they contracted the virus.


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