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House narrows mental-stress standard in workers' compensation after hours of debate
Summary
After extensive floor debate over causation standards and overlapping remedies, the House adopted a substitute amendment narrowing the standard for compensable mental-stress claims and passed Senate Bill 130 46 yes to 23 nos. Lawmakers debated whether to require stress be "solely and directly" from employment or a lesser threshold such as "predominantly."
The Utah House on March 1 passed Senate Bill 130, a bill defining when mental-stress injuries qualify for workers' compensation, after prolonged debate and multiple substitute amendments.
Sponsors introduced language to make physical, mental or emotional injuries related to mental stress compensable only when there is sufficient legal and medical causal connection between the injury and employment. Opponents said the original wording—requiring injuries be "solely and directly" from employment—would practically bar most claims because…
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