Bank Failed to Accommodate Teller with PTSD

A bank teller who experienced post-traumatic stress disorder after an armed robbery won a reinstatement of her $800,000 Fair Employment and Housing Act award from the 5th District Court of Appeal for failure to accommodate, after the appellate court concluded that substantial evidence supported the jury award.  Case: Carr v. Washington Mutual Bank, No. F051628, 4/22/09, unpublished.Facts:Laressia Carr had worked as a part-time teller at a Washington Mutual bank branch in Merced since 1988. In September 2002, robbers held up the bank, and took money at gunpoint from Carr and another teller...