| Abstract: | The Connecticut Supreme Court decided that medical monitoring and treatment costs that an employee might require as a result of occupational exposure to HIV and tuberculosis must be covered by worker's compensation. This decision is seen as beneficial to high-risk employees, including emergency medical workers, law enforcement personnel, and health care workers. The ruling came in the case of a Stanford, CT police officer who was occupationally exposed to HIV and tuberculosis when he touched medical pads used to soak up body fluids from a criminal suspect who later divulged that he was HIV-positive. Doe was also exposed to tuberculosis when he came into close physical contact with another criminal suspect. The State supreme court ruled that Connecticut's State compensation review board improperly denied the police officer the right to recover reasonable expenses directly related to his job-related exposure. |
