Wisconsin Senate Bill 168 was introduced, which would expand the current PTSD presumption to emergency medical responders, emergency medical services practitioners, volunteer firefighters, correctional officers, emergency dispatchers, coroners and coroner staff members, and medical examiners and medical examiner staff members.

Current legislation features a PTSD presumption for firefighters and law enforcement officers who are diagnosed with PTSD, where the diagnosis dose not require unusual stress beyond day-to-day strain.

If passed, Senate Bill 168 would grant these additional occupations the same PTSD presumption, allowing them to file PTSD claims. Down the road, this could result in more PTSD claims in workers’ comp.