Connecticut lawmakers seek to expand PTSD law

Lawmakers in Connecticut will consider amending its workers compensation law permitting post-traumatic stress disorder as a compensable injury to all workers.

S.B. 91, filed Thursday, would amend the state’s law on benefits for police officers, parole officers or firefighters suffering post-traumatic stress disorder after a “qualifying event,” which includes witnessing death and grave injuries, to include “all employees covered by workers compensation law.”

The bill was referred to the Committee on Labor and Public Employees.