"If you are a worker in NSW – including health care
and / or aged care workers – and you have been exposed to
COVID-19 and since contracted the virus, you may be able to bring a
workers compensation claim.
Such a claim will be for loss of wages, medical treatment
expenses and depending on the severity of your injuries, a lump sum
claim for Whole Person Impairment.
You may be able to consider a common law claim, depending on the
level of your impairment and should it be shown that your employer
was negligent. For example, they did not provide adequate
protective equipment.
Hundreds of workers compensation claims have already been made
in NSW in relation to COVID-19.1 There have also been at
least 11 claims for workers compensation denied by insurance
companies.
