In the first part of this post, we began discussing the issue of workers’ compensation for police officers and other frontline responders who experience post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after an especially violent event. If an officer is suffering from PTSD due to a violent incident that happened on the job, shouldn’t work comp be available…
Physical impairments are typically easier to see than mental ones. Indeed, an aversion to dealing with issues of mental health is a significant national problem in the U.S. The horrific shootings in Aurora, Colorado, and Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012 were terrible reminders once again of the trauma that unresolved mental illnesses can inflict. But what…
