A pending legislative proposal that would authorize coverage of post-traumatic stress disorder for first responders would also apply to dispatchers.
The Idaho Industrial Commission in October posted to its website draft legislation that would declare PTSD is compensable for first responders when diagnosed by a psychologist or psychiatrist. The bill would require workers to show by a preponderance of the evidence that PTSD was caused by an event or events occurring in the course of employment.
One bill draft would require workers to show their condition was caused by events that were “e...
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