Mental Conditions Compensable Without Injury Causation

By Greg Jones, Correspondent Florida’s 1st District Court of Appeal has held that mental conditions resulting from workplace incidents can be compensable even when the alleged condition is not directly caused by a physical injury.State courts, including the 1st District Court of Appeal, have previously held that workers' compensation statutes limit the conditions under which a claimant may seek benefits for mental health conditions to cases where the physical injury is the major contributing cause of the mental or nervous injury. One example would be chronic pain after a workplace ac...