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Chester County adopts expanded line‑of‑duty death benefit for paid responders, retroactive to Jan. 1
Summary
The Chester County Board of Commissioners voted March 25 to revise the county’s emergency responder line‑of‑duty death benefit policy to include paid personnel as well as volunteers and to make the change retroactive to Jan. 1, citing the recent death of Corporal Tim O’Connor as the impetus.
The Chester County Board of Commissioners on March 25 approved a revision to the county’s emergency responder line‑of‑duty death benefit policy that extends eligibility to paid personnel and applies the update retroactively to Jan. 1.
County staff presented the change as an update to a policy originally adopted in 2001 that had focused on volunteer firefighters, volunteer EMS and other unpaid emergency responders. The amended policy explicitly allows paid staff —…
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