The claim involves psychiatric injury caused by workplace stress or trauma without accompanying physical harm. Several states bar such claims entirely, and others require extraordinary stress exceeding ordinary employment conditions.
First responder presumptions have expanded coverage.
Alternative Names:
Mental-Mental|Psychiatric Injury Claim
Why it Matters?
The extraordinary stress requirement in states permitting these claims excludes ordinary workplace pressure including workload, discipline, and personnel decisions, which forecloses most claims arising from routine employment friction. First responder post-traumatic stress presumptions enacted in many states create an exception that shifts the burden entirely for covered occupations. Confirming whether the claimant falls within a presumption is the threshold analysis.
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