NY Court Backs Away From Always Requiring Abnormal Stress in COVID-19 Psych Claims

NY Bus Driver’s COVID-19 Mental Injury Claim Denied

NY Therapist’s Mild Heart Attack Following Altercation with Supervisor Was Compensable

No Mental Injury Recovery When Ohio Corrections Officer was Groped by Inmate

Iowa Court Affirms Denial of Death Benefits in Suicide Case

An Iowa appellate court affirmed a district court’s decision affirming the denial of death benefits to a widow whose husband committed suicide mere hours after he had been terminated from...

Oregon Software Worker Fails to Establish Mental Disorder Claim

Illustrating the substantial barrier that many Oregon claimants contend has been erected via the combination of the state’s “clear and convincing evidence” standard and its “major contributing cause” requirement [see...

Correctional Officer's PTSD Claim Fails under NY's Objective Standard of Stress

Reiterating New York’s adherence to an objective, rather than a subjective standard with regard to stress-related claims, a state appellate court affirmed a determination by the state’s Workers’ Compensation Board...

NC Claims Rep's Occupational Disease Claim for Anxiety and Depression Fails

A North Carolina appellate court affirmed a decision by the state’s Industrial Commission that denied an employee’s claim for an alleged occupational disease due to excessive stress and other pressures...

Unusual “Event” Versus Unusual “Stress”: AZ Court Says Commission Should Reconsider Deputy Sheriff’s PTSD Claim

Construing Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 23-1043.01(B), which denies coverage for mental injuries, such as PTSD, unless some “unexpected, unusual or extraordinary stress related to the employment … was a substantial...

NY Hair Salon Owner Fails to Show Causal Connection Between Rude Customers and Her Heart Attack

A New York appellate court, weighing conflicting medical evidence as to the causal connection, if any, between a business woman’s heart attack was causally connected to her employment, recently affirmed...

Washington Public Defender May Be Able to Recover in Tort for Work-Related PTSD

Restrictive “Mental-Mental” Coverage in State’s Comp Act Opens Door to Potential Liability In a case with a bizarre fact pattern, a King County (Washington) public defender, who contended that she...

Kentucky Considers PTSD Benefits—but Only for First Responders

Animal Farm Logic: “All [workers] are equal, but some [workers] are more equal than others.” House Bill 40, which would provide workers’ compensation benefits for post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD), but...