In granting the prison guard's claim petition, Workers' Compensation Judge Lawrence Beck said that seeing a person shot and killed should not be considered a normal part of a job, even in a line of work that is often violent. (Credit: txking/Shutterstock.com)
A workers' compensation judge awarded benefits to a Philadelphia corrections officer for post-traumatic stress disorder he sustained when he witnessed the fatal shooting of an inmate who had just been released from the prison.
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Aleeza Furman
Aleeza Furman is a Philadelphia-based litigation reporter with The Legal Intelligencer. Contact her at [email protected].
