---
title: State of the States, May 17
description: Arizona firefighters arguing cities are breaking the law by not covering their occupational cancer claims. That and more with IWP State of the States.
---

[Injured Workers Pharmacy: News ](https://www.iwpharmacy.com/blog)

# [State of the States, May 17](https://www.iwpharmacy.com/blog/state-of-the-states-may-17)

 Written by [Danielle Jaffee](https://www.iwpharmacy.com/blog/author/danielle-jaffee) | May 20, 2019 12:00:00 PM

What's happening this week in workers' compensation? IWP's weekly legislative wrap-up, **State of the States**, keeps you up to date on important matters within the workers' compensation and pharmacy arena..

**This week's legislative wrap-up contains updates including:**

- Connecticut Senate voting to pass first responder PTSD bill
- Electronic prescribing mandate could be coming to Delaware
- Firefighters in Arizona arguing cities are breaking the law by not covering their occupational cancer claims

<https://www.iwpharmacy.com/hubfs/Legislative%20Wrap%20Up%2005.17.19.pdf>

This edition also includes updates in states like Pennsylvania, Vermont, and New York.

Stay connected to all relevant information in workers' compensation and pharmacy by subscribing to our weekly newsletter. For last week's wrap-up, please click [here](https://www.iwpharmacy.com/blog/state-of-the-states-may-10). 

[View full post](https://www.iwpharmacy.com/blog/state-of-the-states-may-17)

```json
{
  "@context" : "http://schema.org",
  "@type" : "BlogPosting",
  "author" : {
    "@type" : "Person",
    "name" : "Danielle Jaffee"
  },
  "dateModified" : "2021-09-20T15:36:15.666Z",
  "datePublished" : "2019-05-20T12:00:00Z",
  "headline" : "State of the States, May 17",
  "image" : {
    "@type" : "ImageObject",
    "height" : 532,
    "url" : "https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/706121/JJG_0957%20Cropped.jpg",
    "width" : 798
  },
  "mainEntityOfPage" : "https://www.iwpharmacy.com/blog/state-of-the-states-may-17",
  "publisher" : {
    "@type" : "Organization",
    "logo" : {
      "@type" : "ImageObject",
      "height" : 60.0,
      "url" : "https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/706121/IWP_logo_RGB_150_96.png",
      "width" : 104.819275
    },
    "name" : "News"
  }
}
```