Title: Limiting First Responder PTSD Death Benefits to 1 Year
Title: Limiting First Responder PTSD Death Benefits to 1 Year
Vote to adopt an amendment to LB 780 that limits workers' compensation death benefits for dependents of first responders whose death resulted directly from mental injury or mental illness as a result of "extraordinary and unusual circumstances" of their employment conditions to 1 year after the incident that resulted in the mental injury or mental illness.
-Prohibits dependents from receiving death benefits if the death occurred 1 year or more after the incident that resulted in the mental injury or mental illness (Sec. 1b).