"While many of the bills we monitored in 2020 focused on establishing presumptions that were applicable primarily to first responders and/or healthcare workers, several of the current legislative proposals establish presumptions for additional categories of workers," says NCCI's Jeff Eddinger. (Credit: metamorworks/Shutterstock)

Among the havoc dished out by COVID-19 emerged two major hits on workers' comp: A significant drop in net premiums written and presumptions covering workers that contracted the virus.

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