Connecticut lawmakers aim to eliminate hurdles for mental claims
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Connecticut lawmakers on Tuesday reviewed three bills that would enable more workers to claim mental injuries in the workers compensation system, less than two years after a law was passed making mental injuries for first responders compensable.
H.B. 5560 would extend benefits for “certain mental or emotional impairments” to emergency medical services personnel, Department of Correction employees and dispatchers.
S.B. 365 would “allow all workers coverage for post-traumatic stress and other mental or emotional injuries,” and S.B. 364 would amend state workers comp law “to allow for compensation for certain mental and emotional injuries that do not arise out of physical injury or occupational disease.”
All three bills were referred to the Joint Committee on Labor and Public Employees.
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