PA Trucker’s PTSD Claim Denied Following Small Truck Fire

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

NY Firefighter Successfully Proved PTSD Claim Based Upon Multiple Gruesome Incidents

Noting that a medical opinion need not be expressed with absolute medical certainty as long as it signified a probability of the underlying cause that was supported by a rational...

AZ Police Officer’s PTSD Claim Fails Since Stress was not Unexpected

In a split decision, an Arizona appellate court affirmed a finding by the state’s Industrial Commission that a police officer failed to establish a compensable workers’ compensation claim based on...

W. Va Claimant’s PTSD Claim Fails in Spite of Her Use of Earlier Case as a “Template”

In a deeply divided (3-2) memorandum decision, the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia affirmed a decision rejecting the claim of a cashier at a gaming parlor who contended...

Florida First Responder’s PTSD Claim is Untimely Filed

A Florida appellate court held the 52-week filing requirement found in § 112.1815(5)(d), Fla. Stat., operated as a statute of repose, and not as a statute of limitations. Under the...

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...

District of Columbia's Public Sector Comp Act Does Not Provide Schedule Benefits for PTSD

The District of Columbia Court of Appeals held that a public-sector employee may not recover schedule benefits for PTSD pursuant to D.C. Code § 1-623.07 (2016 Repl.) since that statute...

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...

Washington Claimant May Not Recover for PTSD as an Occupational Disease

A Washington appellate court affirmed a finding by the state’s Department of Labor and Industries (”the Department”) that an employee could not prevail in her occupational disease claim for post-traumatic...

Minnesota High Court Explains PTSD Evidentiary Requirements

Minn. Stat. § 176.011, subd. 15(d) (2018), which requires the employee to prove that the employee has been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by a licensed psychologist or psychiatrist...

PTSD Now a Compensable Condition in Connecticut—But Only if You’re a First Responder

This Wednesday (July 10, 2019), Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont, flanked by a group of first responders and state legislators, signed into law a new provision [S.B. 164, enrolled as Public...