Stats on Risk of COVID from Work don’t Automatically Shut Down W.Va. Nurse’s Claim

Stats on Risk of COVID from Work don’t Automatically Shut Down W.Va. Nurse’s Claim

Is statistical evidence that a worker was just as likely to contract COVID-19 outside of work than at work enough, by itself, to defeat a workers’ compensation claim? The state’s High Court recently addressed that decision in a case involving a nurse who caught the virus and spent 15 days in the hospital. The nurse in Foster v . Primecare Medical of West Virginia, No. No. 23-726 (W.Va. 05/27/25), worked at a Jail. She was exposed to about twenty…