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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 must instead establish that the stress level he faced was more severe than the stress levels faced by other correctional officers performing similar duties. The court, therefore, affirmed a Board decision denying benefits related to the officer's PTSD. New York utilizes an objective, not a subjective, standard when it comes to establishing a mental injury.
Thomas A. Robinson, J.D., the Feature National Columnist for the LexisNexis Workers’ Compensation eNewsletter, is co-author of Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law (LexisNexis).
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See Matter of Rivenburg v. County of Albany, 2020 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 5378 (Oct. 1, 2020)
See generally Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law, §§ 44.05, 56.06.
Source: Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law, the nation’s leading authority on workers’ compensation law
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