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Newtown officer wins arbitration on stress claim after Sandy Hook
Rob Ryser
Updated 8:14 pm, Thursday, May 21, 2015
NEWTOWN -- Police officer Thomas Bean continues to struggle with effects of post-traumatic stress disorder after the Sandy Hook massacre.
But one thing the 40-year-old cop will not have to fight is the town over his long-term disability benefit.
An arbitration board has ordered Newtown to pay 50 percent of his salary until his retirement, which would total $380,000 over 11 years.
The town had notified Bean that it would stop making long-term disability payments to him after June, because its insurance carrier limits emotional disability benefits to two years.
http://www.newstimes.com/local/article/Newtown-officer-wins-arbitration-on-stress-claim-6279179.php