USA Today ran a story on 5/16 proclaiming that more workers than ever are seeking compensation for mental stress injuries suffered on the job. Citing an unverified statistic that nearly a third of the 6,000 workers' compensation claims related to the World Trade Center attack involve some component of stress, the paper says that there is an increase in psychiatric claims nationally. As an example, the story relates a recent Illinois Supreme Court case where the family of a high school teacher was able to collect on the decedent...
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