An agreement has been reached by a Nebraska county and a sheriff's deputy who recently lost his family health insurance after being shot in the line of duty last year.
Deuel County Deputy Michael Hutchinson receive a $1,500 stipend from the county, which would pay for about 10 months of insurance purchased through the Affordable Care Act, according to The World-Herald.
"I'm not unhappy about it," Hutchinson told the newspaper following the decision Tuesday. "They did something, which was better than nothing."
The one-time payment, which was requested by his attorney, ends the wounded deputy's effort to regain the insurance coverage after he was dropped form the county plan last month.
The issue garnered national attention -- including threats, angry letters and social media comments directed toward county officials.
The County Commissioners meeting Tuesday attracted a crowd to the courthouse in Chappell, including law enforcement officers from Nebraska and Colorado.
The 52-year-old deputy continues to recover from four gunshot wounds he sustained while serving an arrest warrant in Big Springs in December.
All of his medical bills related to the shooting have been paid by the county's workers' compensation insurance carrier, but he fell off the county's group plan for family coverage on May 31 after it switched to a new third-party provider and was noted that he wasn't working at least 30 hours a week.
