Proposed Florida law would grant first responders worker's comp for PTSD

  • Source: Tallahassee Democrat & Tallahassee.com
  • Published: 01/17/2018 12:00 AM

Break a leg on the job and workers compensation will pay the medical bills and cover lost wages. But suffer emotional or psychological trauma after a failed attempt to revive an infant or hours processing dead bodies in the wake of a mass shooting and you're out of luck. Families of first responders and a bi-partisan group of lawmakers are behind a proposal to include post traumatic stress disorder in workers comp coverage. And they have it in a fast lane in the Senate. "It's like you have a gaping hole, an open wound and they say 'put a band aid on it and go back to work," said Jessica Realin, wife of a retired Orlando Police officer who suffered from PTSD in the wake of the Pulse Nightclub shooting.



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