The Connecticut State Senate Wednesday approved a bill to allow police officers to receive worker’s compensation for stress following the use of deadly force on a mammal.

The bill comes after the 2009 killing of a 200-pound pet chimpanzee in Stamford last year, wherein a police officer was forced to shoot the animal after it attacked a number of people.

The officer testified to lawmakers that he suffered post-traumatic stress disorder after the experience but that he was denied worker’s compensation coverage for the incident.

Current law allows an officer to receive worker’s compensation following the shooting of a human, but not an animal. The bill must now pass the House after receiving Senate approval.

The ins and outs of worker’s compensation can be complicated. If you believe you have been injured or suffered from a work related incident and been unjustly excluded from worker’s compensation benefits, contact the New Jersey worker’s compensation attorneys of Levinson Axelrod, P.A., at 800-346-5529.