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Committee advances bill recognizing PTSD as occupational disease for coroners, medical examiners
Summary
House Bill 1002, which would allow county coroners and medical examiner personnel to file PTSD-based workers' compensation claims, was reported out of the Labor & Workplace Standards Committee with a due-pass recommendation on a 7–2 vote.
House Bill 1002, which would allow county coroners and medical examiner personnel to file workers' compensation occupational disease claims for post-traumatic stress disorder, was reported out of the Labor & Workplace Standards Committee with a due-pass recommendation on a 7–2 vote.
The bill as presented to the committee would add coroners and medical examiner staff to classes eligible to seek PTSD-based workers' compensation claims. Staff described two amendments in the bill packet related to how costs from the claims should be handled by the Department of Labor and Industries (L&I).
The bill matters because workers who regularly investigate traumatic deaths, the staff…
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