Where a fire lieutenant suffered from PTSD after witnessing a fellow firefighter die after a traumatic fire, the Commission’s decision that the claimant did not sustain accidental injuries that arose out of and in the course of his employment was against...
As is the case in a number of states, Arizona allows “apportionment” of certain permanent injury claims between an employer and a “special fund” where the employee’s permanency results from the combination of a pre-existing condition...
A North Carolina appellate court affirmed an award of continuing TTD benefits to a salesperson and driver for an auto parts store who complained of chest pains and a throbbing headache following an armed robbery at the employer’s store, but was nevertheless...
A Tennessee nurse, who contended she suffered a mental breakdown and PTSD after attending a work-related conference did not establish that the level of stress he experienced at the conference was abnormal, extraordinary, or unusual, held a special workers’...
A hotel housekeeper was bit by a German Shepherd when she opened a door. She claims she could never work again due to PTSD and other injuries. The Commission affirmed an award of partial disability benefits but rejected her claim of total disability. Mujanic v...
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 the stress...
Last November, I had the pleasure of speaking at the 24th Annual National Workers’ Compensation and Disability Conference in Las Vegas. My session was a spin-off of what has become one of my most popular annual blog offerings—a presentation of truly...
A 61-year old woman walks into an elevator at work. The scenario may start to sound like a joke. She works in customer service on the 5th floor in the employer’s building in Greene County, Missouri. The elevator falls a flight, and she isn’t rescued...
A nurse, who suffered a series of assaults by patients at her employer’s hospital may recover for her mental disability—major depressive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder—in spite of Nebraska’s general rule that requires mental...
A store manager who sustained injuries in her employer’s parking lot after she pursued two persons, posing as customers, who stole her purse from the store, could recover workers’ compensation benefits for psychological injuries in the nature of PTSD...
A secretary at a medical facility, who claimed she suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder after she responded to the suicide of a patient, is entitled to workers’ compensation benefits, held a New York court. Affirming a decision of the state Board...
A law enforcement officer from the City of Hornell (N.Y.) Police Department, who was sent to New York City for a six-day period following the terrorist attack at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and who was engaged there in “perimeter containment”...
A county sheriff’s personal secretary who, according to third-party witness accounts, was told by the sheriff during a heated exchange that her “ass is fired,” and that he would “shave her dog, sugar her gas tank and burn her house down”...
An unruly patient who punched the claimant in her mouth knocked her out of the labor market, according to the Commission which affirmed a total disability award against the second injury fund. Seldon v St. Louis Psychiatric Rehab Center , 2014 Mo WCLR Lexis 110...
A Virginia appellate court affirmed an award of benefits to a UPS driver who claimed he had suffered from work-related PTSD. Acknowledging that in Virginia, a claimant may recover workers' compensation benefits for a purely psychological injury, provided the...