Health Care Worker Failed to Prove Compensable Injury From Job-Related Stress

A Louisiana appellate court ruled that a health care worker failed to prove she suffered a compensable mental or perivascular injury brought on by the stress of arriving for work and finding that the prior shift had left multiple tasks for her to do. Case: Emerson v. Willis Knighton Medical Center, No. 52,216-WCA, 09/26/2018, published. Facts: Diedre Emerson worked for the Willis Knighton Health System as a certified nursing assistant. When she arrived for work on the evening of Sept. 30, 2016, she found that the prior shift had left much of its work undone. Emerson said the situa...