PTSD Bill Fading Fast, but Alternate Employer Organization Plan Passes

With just a few days left in Ohio's 2020 legislative session, it's becoming clear that only one significant workers' compensation measure has passed both houses, while two other bills appear to be on life support. Two bills that would provide different types of benefits for post-traumatic stress disorder have been hotly debated in the last two weeks but appear to be running out of time, observers said Friday. House Bill 308, sponsored by Rep. Thomas Patton, R-Strongsville, would make “mental-mental” conditions compensable for first responders. That would break fr...