· 5/4/1979
Albanese's Case
Citations
- 389 N.E.2d 83
- 378 Mass. 14
- 1979 Mass. LEXIS 795
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- holding that an employee may be compensated under the workers’ compensation law for severe emotional distress
- holding employee is entitled to compensation if incapacitated by a mental or emotional disorder causally related to a series of specific stressful work-related incidents
- emotional condition arising from a series of identifiable stressful events at work occurring over a relatively brief period of time
- emotional distress claim barred by the Act where plaintiffs supervisor intentionally attempted to undermine plaintiffs relationship with co-workers through a series of humiliating incidents
- ”[I]f an employee is incapacitated by a mental or emotional disorder causally related to a series of specific stressful work-related incidents, the employee is entitled to compensation” under the Act
- “We hold that if an employee is incapacitated by a mental or emotional disorder causally related to a series of specific stressful work-related incidents, the employee is entitled to compensation”
Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).
Judges: Hennessey, Quirico, Braucher, Kaplan, Abrams
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