Today the Governor announced an emergency expansion of the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act that was approved this morning by the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission

First responders and front line workers that are injured or suffer periods of incapacity from exposure to COVID-19 during a COVID-19 state of emergency will be entitled to rebuttable presumptions in contested hearings that the injury or incapacity arose out of and in the course of their employment, and were causally connected to the hazards or exposures of that employment.