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· 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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