New York's highest court said the State Workers' Compensation Board was not required to consider the prevalence of COVID-19 in the workplace when it rejected pandemic-related stress claims.
Three transit workers and a teacher filed workers' compensation claims for post-traumatic stress disorder from workplace exposure to COVID-19 during the early days of the pandemic.
The State Workers' Compensation Board held that the workers failed to demonstrate they were exposed to greater stress than their colleagues and therefore did not establish the accidental nature of their injuries...
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