Firefighter Benefit, PTSD Expansion Passes; MLFS Bill on Hold

California legislative committees last week passed bills that would give more firefighters access to salary continuation benefits and a presumption that post-traumatic stress disorder is compensable. At the same time, lawmakers held a measure that would require payments for medical-legal services to keep pace with inflation, likely taking the bill out of consideration for the rest of the current session that ends Sept. 10. The Assembly Appropriations Committee on Thursday voted 12-0 to move Senate Bill 284 from its suspense file, allowing the full Assembly to vote on the measure and ret...