The Illinois Appellate Court last week declined rehearing of a police officer's claim for a psychological injury, which allegedly arose out of his trauma from a standoff with a citizen holding what appeared to be a handgun.A divided court panel had ruled in April that Ismael Diaz's occupation and training should not have factored into the consideration of whether the situation, which supposedly triggered his post-traumatic stress disorder, was a "shock" to him or not.The case was Diaz v. Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission, No. 11-MR-377.Diaz worked for the Village of Montgom...
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