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Representative urges including university police in accidental‑heart presumptions after Bridgewater officer's death
Summary
Representative Dennis Gallagher pressed the committee to consider legislation extending accidental disability and death presumptions (heart law) to university police officers, citing the case of a Bridgewater State University officer who died of a heart attack and whose widow was denied benefits under Chapter 32, section 94.
Representative Dennis Gallagher asked the Joint Committee on Public Service to revisit whether university police officers should receive the same accidental disability and death benefit presumptions as municipal police officers under state retirement law.
Gallagher described a Bridgewater State University police officer who died of a heart attack in 2004 and said the widow’s claim for…
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