A divided Pennsylvania Supreme Court last week ruled that a state law enforcement officer who accidentally ran over a mentally disturbed woman in his patrol car – an incident that was captured on video – was entitled to an award of benefits for psychological distress.Five of the court's justices, in Payes v. WCAB, No. 50 MAP 2011, ruled that the situation that unfolded in the pre-dawn hours of Nov. 29, 2006, created an "abnormal working condition" for veteran state trooper Philip Payes, as a matter of law. Payes had been driving his patrol car along Interstate 81, near Har...
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