Where an employer and its insurer challenged the decision of the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission to award workers’ compensation benefits to a truck driver who suffered from acute stress disorder and depression following an on-the-job accident, the judgment is ...

Tagged with: Compensation to Spouse Permanent Total Disability Award Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

A jury awarded a mid-Missouri couple $545,000 after an attorney argued one of them suffered psychological trauma and the other physical trauma when their car was rear-ended by a tractor trailer seven years ago.

Tagged with: Motor vehicle collision Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Verdicts & Settlements

A woman whose car was struck by a metal bolt that flew off a dump truck said the incident caused her to suffer post-traumatic stress disorder, but a jury didn’t buy it — at least not for the price she was asking.

Tagged with: Motor vehicle collision Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Verdicts & Settlements

Weeks v. State (MLW No. 62207/Case No. SD30690 – 8 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Francis Jr., J.)

Tagged with: FrancisJr Guilty Plea Mental Capacity Post-Conviction Motion Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Where a veteran, who claimed that officials and doctors of the Department of Veterans Affairs interfered with his right to get private medical care by withholding from him a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder, sued in federal court claiming the ...

Tagged with: civil rights jurisdiction Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder