Nebraska Bill would Expand Workers’ Comp Coverage to Mental Illness

April 1, 2008

  • April 1, 2008 at 3:15 am
    Brian says:
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    These are not occupational “diseases”. They’re incidents triggered by a single event. This is what life insurance if designed to provide for. They’re opening pandora’s box for every ridiculous claim that can be dreamed up. What’s to stop me from claiming post traumatic stress syndrome from almost falling down the steps at work?

  • April 2, 2008 at 11:23 am
    lastbat says:
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    No, no, you could only file if you witnesses somebody else almost fall down the steps at work.

    I’m not a big fan of workers’ compensation covering mental illness in any way shape or form because of the difficulty in proving it. I would really hate it if I had to cover employees who merely witnessed a violent act and decided they were traumatized by it. This bill needs to go away so it won’t infect other states with bad ideas.

  • April 3, 2008 at 12:02 pm
    Smitty says:
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    Worker’s comp should be for “provable” physical injury only, mental illness from on the job action is just to difficult to assess or quantify especially for police or firemen, that’s why they make the big bucks with their high school diplomas-part of that pay is for the mental grief that comes with the job.

    Expanding coverage to unprovable “mental illness” shifts a lil too much burden upon the employers, WC is already a huge presumption of liability opon the employer, America still has to compete economically with other countries which have no worker’s comp and other states that have no mental illness worker’s comp.

    The psycho-babble industry in America is overwhelming, we have more phychologists & phychiatrists than we can possibly employ, some nations have none & do just fine.



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