{"id":29013,"date":"2020-02-20T12:11:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T17:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/?p=29013"},"modified":"2020-02-25T11:07:31","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T16:07:31","slug":"business-travel-coronavirus-and-workers-comp-jason-bent-weighs-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/index.php\/2020\/02\/20\/business-travel-coronavirus-and-workers-comp-jason-bent-weighs-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Business travel, coronavirus and workers comp &#8211; Jason Bent weighs in"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;line-height:18px\">By Jeff John Roberts<br><em>Fortune<\/em><br>Feb. 12, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Jason-Bent-cropped-RGB-for-WEB-970x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16506\" width=\"158\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Jason-Bent-cropped-RGB-for-WEB-970x1024.jpg 970w, https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Jason-Bent-cropped-RGB-for-WEB-474x500.jpg 474w, https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Jason-Bent-cropped-RGB-for-WEB-768x811.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/law\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Jason-Bent-cropped-RGB-for-WEB.jpg 1349w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 158px) 100vw, 158px\" \/><figcaption>Professor Jason Bent<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Excerpt<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The short answer, according to legal experts, is that workers can&#8217;t cite the coronavirus outbreak as a reason not to carry out their ordinary duties\u2014including duties that involve general travel. While a federal law called the Occupational Safety and Health Act offers some protection to workers who refuse to work in the face of danger, those protections are unlikely to apply\u2014at least for now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead, the ordinary rules related to workers compensation are likely to apply to those who catch coronavirus on a business trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Law professor Jason Bent of Stetson University points to a&nbsp;1989 case&nbsp;about a woman who contracted chronic respiratory illness after being exposed to Influenza B while traveling in Asia. The Supreme Court of Minnesota ruled the woman was eligible for workers compensation because she was on work-related business, and the disease was not one she would have contracted in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"border-top: 1px solid #cccccc;width:100px;margin: 20px 0px 15px 0px !important;\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size: 11.5px;line-height:18px;padding-bottom:15px;\">The complete article was originally published on the <i>Fortune<\/i> website on Feb. 12, 2020, with the headline, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2020\/02\/12\/coronavirus-travel-work-trip-do-i-have-to-go\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">My boss wants me to travel during the coronavirus. 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