HB51 Alabama 2019 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Randy Wood Representative

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2019

Title

Workers' compensation, occupational disease further defined, Sec. 25-5-110 am'd.

Description

Under existing law, for purposes of worker's compensation, an occupational disease does not include a mental disease or disorder arising out of and in the course of employment unless there is an accompanying physical injury.

This bill would define occupational disease for purposes of worker's compensation for a paid law enforcement officer, paid firefighter, or paid emergency worker, to include a mental disease or disorder, including post-traumatic stress disorder, that arises out of and in the course of employment without regard to whether there was an accompanying physical injury.

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Subjects

Workers' Compensation