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A home security system can be considered medical treatment under the state’s Workers’ Compensation Act, the Court of Special Appeals has held. The decision could mean the Comfort Suites hotel in Chestertown will have to pay to install a home alarm system for Carol Simmons, who was brutally attacked by a robber while on the job in September 2006.
While Judge Kathryn Grill Graeff agreed “medical treatment” has a liberal definition under the Workers’ Compensation Act, she made clear the appellate court ruling did not mean home security systems are medical treatment in Simmons’ or any other case.