With all the respect we can offer to the members of the Appellate Court, Workers' Compensation Division, we have to say we consider their new and unprecedented legal theory to be a major WC mistake. What they are now doing is to develop is the philosophy that post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD of any sort, is now an “accidental injury” in this state. What just hit is their ruling in Moran v. IWCC, where they ruled a firefighter lieutenant can receive potentially lifelong benefits for PTSD due to the passing of another firefighter under his command during a live f...
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