Workers’ Compensation
Ca. Workers' Comp. Quarterly 2020, Vol. 33, No. 2
Content
- Alleged Covid-19 Work-Related Injury or Illness: a Guide to Determining When an Employer Must Provide a Claim Form
- Apportionment Now: Where We Are After Justice, Hikida, and Lindh
- California's Troubled Qme System: You Get What You Pay For
- New Turn on the Apportionment Road: Applying Apportionment Law to the Conclusive Presumption of Labor Code Section 4662(a)
- Psychiatric Injury As a Compensable Consequence of an Industrial Injury—There Are Some Limits
- The Key to Mediation Success
- Workers' Compensation Section 2019-2020 Executive Committee Roster
- Managing the Ptsd Presumption
Managing the PTSD Presumption
Kia Myers Holsey, Esq.
Oakland, California
Governor Newsom signed into law SB 542, which took effect on January 1, 2020. It creates a strong presumption of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) injury for every police officer, deputy sheriff, and firefighter in California. The law adds section 3212.15 to the Labor Code. This article addresses the essential features of that law and provides various material considerations for the practitioner when confronted with an allegation of presumed PTSD.