Widow asks council to request settlement in firefighter's workers’ comp case
A resident whose husband, a longtime firefighter-paramedic, died after occupational cancer urged the council to request a settlement offer from the insurer; she said the city had publicly recognized the line-of-duty death but had not sought a settlement and no apology had been offered.
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A Liberty resident (speaker 7) addressed the council about her late husband Steve Salmon, who served as a firefighter-paramedic and whose death the city recognized as a line-of-duty death. She said the workers’ compensation claim remains unresolved after 611 days and told council members the city had an option to request a settlement offer from the insurer but had not done so.
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