Connecticut lawmakers voted to send the governor a bill that would make various changes to the program providing quasi-workers’ compensation benefits to firefighters with certain types of cancer.
Senate Bill 1426 would expand the types of cancers the program covers to include skin cancer. It would also require the firefighter program to provide benefits in the same way they would be if the cancer was caused by an occupational disease under the state’s workers’ compensation laws.
Additionally, the bill would modify the criteria to qualify for coverage.
Current law requires ...
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