The Minnesota Supreme Court upheld an award of benefits to a social worker for post-traumatic stress disorder and clarified that comp judges may review the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders criteria when considering the persuasiveness of expert reports, but they can't make their own diagnosis of a claimant’s condition.
Janine Tea was a social worker for Ramsey County, and her clients were those with a history of mental illness who had trouble functioning in society.
In February 2020, one of Tea’s clients killed his girlfriend in an act of extreme brut...
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