High Court Rules no TTD for Health Care Worker Exposed to HIV

An Alaska health care worker who was sprayed in the eye with fluids from an HIV-positive patient was not entitled to continuing temporary total disability benefits for her psychological stress more than a year after her exposure, the state Supreme Court ruled on Friday. The case was Runstrom v. Alaska Native Medical Center, No. S-14294. Esther Runstrom worked for the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium as a patient services assistant at the Alaska Native Medical Center. In August 2007, while she was assisting a nurse in the critical care unit, fluids from an HIV-positive patient splashed he...