Two first responder-related workers’ compensation bills in New Hampshire seem headed for study commissions.
As proposed, one would have made it easier to get compensation for mental-only injuries, and the other sought to establish a fund to compensate firefighters with job-related cancers.
Before the Senate "gutted it" — in the words of Bill McQuillen, president of the Professional Firefighters of New Hampshire — Senate Bill 541 established a $3 million premium-derived fund to compensate firefighters for cancers presumed to be job-related.
The amended b...
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