Florida Statutes Title X. Public Officers, Employees, and Records § 112.18155. Correctional officers; special provisions for posttraumatic stress disorders

1. Being taken hostage by an inmate or trapped in a life-threatening situation as a result of an inmate's act;

2. Directly witnessing a death, including a death due to suicide, of a person who suffered grievous bodily harm of a nature that shocks the conscience;

3. Directly witnessing an injury, including an attempted suicide, to a person who subsequently dies before or upon arrival at a hospital emergency department if the person was injured by grievous bodily harm of a nature that shocks the conscience;

4. Participating in the physical treatment of an injury, or manually transporting a person who was injured, including by attempted suicide, who subsequently dies before or upon arrival at a hospital emergency department if the person was injured by grievous bodily harm of a nature that shocks the conscience;

5. Directly witnessing a homicide regardless of whether the homicide was criminal or excusable, including murder, mass killing, manslaughter, self-defense, misadventure, and negligence; or

6. Seeing for oneself a decedent whose death involved grievous bodily harm of a nature that shocks the conscience.

1. Apportionment due to a preexisting posttraumatic stress disorder.

2. Any limitation on temporary benefits under s. 440.093.

3. The 1-percent limitation on permanent psychiatric impairment benefits under s. 440.15(3).