{"id":259213,"date":"2026-06-08T14:21:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T14:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/259213\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T14:21:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T14:21:56","slug":"weighing-the-impact-of-new-yorks-amended-mental-injury-workers-comp-legislation-18-months-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/259213\/","title":{"rendered":"Weighing the Impact of New York\u2019s Amended Mental Injury Workers\u2019 Comp Legislation 18 Months Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/expert-opinion\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Expert Opinion<\/a>Insurance Law<\/p>\n<p class=\"my-2 text-sm text-neutral-80\">&#8220;In December 2024, New York joined its neighbor to the east, Connecticut, in allowing all workers to file for workers\u2019 compensation for specific types of mental injuries or extraordinary work related stress (S6635\/A5745). In response, employers, attorneys and the courts braced themselves for an expected influx of new mental health-related claims. 18 months later, however, we have seen little legislation in the space. Yet the lack of cases does not show the complete picture. There is reason to believe that the law has already spurred positive change, with employers expanding mental health benefits for their workers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>8 minute read June 08, 2026 at 09:00 AM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Expert OpinionInsurance Law &#8220;In December 2024, New York joined its neighbor to the east, Connecticut, in allowing all&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-259213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}