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Thomas A. Robinson
over 1 year ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Oregon: Stress Claim Fails Under State’s “Major Contributing Cause” Standard
Construing Oregon’s “clear and convincing evidence” standard, along with the state’s requirement that work conditions constitute the “major contributing cause” of the worker’s claimed condition, a state appellate...
Thomas A. Robinson
over 1 year ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
North Dakota: Unusual Stress Required to Support Heart Attack Claims
Construing North Dakota’s “heart attack/stroke” statute, N.D.C.C. § 65-01-02(11)(a)(3), which generally requires that unusual stress be at least 50 percent of the cause of injury or disease—as compared with all other contributing...
Thomas A. Robinson
over 1 year ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Arizona: Police Officer’s PTSD Claim is Not Compensable
In a divided decision, an Arizona appellate court affirmed the denial of a police officer’s PTSD claim, agreeing with the state’s Industrial Commission that the officer had failed to show that he had been subjected to “unexpected, unusual...
Thomas A. Robinson
over 2 years ago
Workers' Compensation
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New York: Stress Must be Proved According to Objective, Not Subjective Standard
A New York appellate court held that in order to establish a claim for PTSD, it was insufficient for a state correctional officer to show that he had been made to feel threatened--an inmate threatened to do bodily harm to the officer's family--he...
Thomas A. Robinson
over 2 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
North Carolina: Insurance Adjuster Fails to Show Stresses of Her Job Were Sufficient to Establish Occupational Disease Claim
Noting that in order to recover benefits for a stress-related condition under North Carolina's definition of occupational disease, it was insufficient merely to show that the employee endured "employment stressors" as a part of her work...
Thomas A. Robinson
over 3 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Arizona: Unusual Stress, Not Unusual Event, Key to Deputy’s Entitlement to PTSD Benefits
An Arizona appellate court reversed a decision of the state’s Industrial Commission that denied a PTSD claim filed by a deputy sheriff, finding the Commission had concentrated on the unusual nature of the event which triggered the deputy’s...
Thomas A. Robinson
over 4 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
New York: Mental Injury Caused by Ordinary Supervision is Not Compensable
Substantial evidence supported the Workers' Compensation Board's factual determination that the claimant's depressive condition was not compensable, because claimant's supervisors described normal oversight and monitoring practices undertaken...
Thomas A. Robinson
over 4 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
North Carolina: Bank Employee’s Tort Action for Failure to Provide Stress-Free Work Environment Fails
A North Carolina appellate court affirmed the dismissal—on exclusive remedy grounds—of a civil action filed by a former bank employee against her former employer and supervisor alleging that the defendants had failed to exercise reasonable...
Ted Zwayer
over 7 years ago
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LexisNexis Workers' Comp Newsroom Fraud Team
over 11 years ago
Workers' Compensation
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Workers' Comp Fraud Blotter (9/29/2011) – Slippery Slope: Injured Worker Received Benefits While Working Secretly As a Ski Instructor
Each week we'll be surveying what the media, state agencies, insurance companies, and others report in terms of workers' comp fraud. Just like a police blotter, our workers' comp fraud blotter lists recent arrests, charges, convictions and...
Cassandra Roberts
over 10 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Mental Injuries
Dan in Real Life…….and the Denial of a Stress Claim in Delaware
Today I violate my usual rule of "do not blog about thyself." For months I have been telling my opponent Mike Bednash that, for better or worse, this case was headed for the blog. And it's a stress claim-so who doesn't want to read about...
Larson's Spotlight
over 7 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Tennessee: With PTSD Claim, Objective, Not Subjective, Test to Be Used In Determining If Stress Was Unusual
In a decision not yet designated for publication, Tennessee’s Special Workers’ Compensation Appeals Panel affirmed a trial court’s denial of an employee’s claim for psychological injuries, depression and PTSD on the grounds that...
Larson's Spotlight
over 8 years ago
Workers' Compensation
Recent Cases, News, Trends & Developments
Pennsylvania: Claimant Fails to Show Psychic Injury Resulted From Abnormal Conditions
In Pennsylvania, a claimant seeking benefits for a psychic injury must meet a higher standard for causation by proving that (a) he or she suffered a psychic injury; and (b) his or her psychic injury was more than a subjective reaction to normal working...
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