PTSD Bill Advances to Senate Committee

The Senate Banking and Insurance Committee next week will discuss legislation that would award first responders indemnity benefits for mental-mental claims for injuries such as post-traumatic stress disorder. The committee meeting will be held from 10 a.m.-noon Tuesday in the Toni Jennings Committee Room of the 110 Senate Office Building in Tallahassee. SB 376, by Sen. Lauren Book, D-Plantation, would use a “clear and convincing” evidentiary standard and would require certain conditions for first responders to receive indemnity benefits. Police, firefighters, ...