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Employees Exposed To Diseases on the Job Entitled To Compensation

Published in AIDS Weekly, July 21st, 1997

Employees who are exposed to potentially fatal diseases on the job are entitled to have worker's compensation cover the costs of ongoing testing and counseling, the Connecticut State Supreme Court ruled.

The decision came in the case of a Stamford police officer who was exposed to HIV and tuberculosis (TB) through contact with suspects. The officer, identified only as John Doe in the court case, received immediate medical treatment after being exposed to the diseases in two separate incidents in 1993. Medical tests showed he had contracted neither disease.

But workers' compensation refused to pay for ongoing testing and counseling, despite a...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (1997-07-21)

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