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This bill amends the definition of "injury" in Kentucky's workers' compensation law to include psychological, psychiatric, or stress-related changes in the human organism for certain employees, such as police officers, firefighters, emergency medical services personnel, and front-line staff, even if the change is not directly caused by a physical injury. The bill sets out the criteria for when such psychological injuries are valid workers' compensation claims, including that the work-related event or cumulative work-related stress must be extraordinary and unusual compared to the average employee, and that the work-related event or stress, not some other event, must be the proximate cause of the psychological change. The bill also creates a rebuttable presumption that post-traumatic stress disorder diagnosed within three years of the last active date of employment as a covered employee is a work-related injury.

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