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Court Rejects Occupational Stress Claim

By on June 27, 2012 in Claims, NJ Workers' Comp with 1 Comment

Employee could not prove objectively verified stressful conditions  New Jersey has a sensible occupational stress standard, namely that the person claiming work stress as a cause for psychiatric illness must prove objectively that the work conditions were stressful.  Since all employees experience some degree of stress, this standard is not very easily met. In Knight […]

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Court Affirms Award For Stroke Related To Unusually Stressful Work Conditions

By on January 12, 2012 in Claims, NJ Workers' Comp with 2 Comments

Euliet Smith worked for Home Instead Senior Care as a caregiver for an elderly woman.  Smith said she cooked, cleaned, bathed and dressed the woman and was on duty 24 hours per day, seven days a week with every other weekend off.  She said it was the most stressful job she ever had. Petitioner also […]

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Occupational Stress – Stroka v. United Airlines

By on July 7, 2008 in Claims, NJ Workers' Comp with 0 Comments

When an employee’s worrying is not based on events which actually took place involving the employee but only on what might have happened to the employee, that kind of worrying has been found not compensable. An example is the case of Stroka v. United Airlines, 364 N.J. Super. 333 (App. Div. 2003), certif. denied, 179 […]

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Occupational Stress – Goyden v. State Judiciary

By on July 7, 2008 in Claims, NJ Workers' Comp with 0 Comments

The most important occupational stress psychiatric opinion is Goyden v. State Judiciary, 256 N.J. Super. 438 (App. Div. 1991), aff’d, 128 N.J. 54 (1992). Goyden was the first significant post-1980 case construing Section 31. It involved a claim by the supervisor of records in the office of the Clerk of the Supreme Court, who was adjudged […]

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