Mental Health Could Be Part Of The Workers Compensation Mix CASPER, WY (wpr) - A legislative committee is sponsoring a bill that will extend benefits for workers who are mentally injured on the job. Jackson Representative Keith Gingery chairs the Select Committee on Mental Health and Substance Abuse. He says Wyoming is one of only a handful of states that only compensates a worker for a mental injury if it is a direct result of a physical injury. Wyoming also only pays workers for mental injuries for six months after they occur. Gingery says this bill would change both of those things.
"Potentially, you could receive the medical treatment aspect for the complete period of time that you have the mental injury, well into multiple years."
Some employers had worried that a bill like this would lead to frivolous claims. Gingery says the committee prevented that by only making mentally injured employees eligible for treatment, medication, back wages, and total disability benefits.

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