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Workers Comp Fails CA Firefighters with PTSD
Season 2024
Episode 36
Firefighters with PTSD are struggling to find medical help, facing a complex workers compensation system that often denies PTSD-related claims more than twice as often as other work-related claims. For decades, the CA legislature has grappled with this issue, one year alone proposing more than 24 bills to fix it.
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