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Teachers and others forced back to work despite Florida’s skyrocketing COVID-19 cases could be denied medical and wage-loss benefits under Florida’s workers’ compensation law, and their families could get nothing if they die.That’s how it goes in one of the nation’s most worker-unfriendly states.If injured by an unruly student or burned in a chemistry lab, a teacher would have indisputable proof of a covered workplace injury — of where, when and how it happened.But it would be virtually impossible for that teacher to prove he or she contracted the coronavirus at school, rather than somewhere e...
