Foreclosure of Bowers v. Bowers

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing that the Workers’ Compensation Act “was enacted for the beneficent purpose of attaining a humanitarian end” and that it “is intended to be remedial and must be liberally construed in favor of the employee”
• recognizing that “there is an accidental or personal injury within the workmen’s compensation acts where an employee, in the course of his employment, receives a sudden shock or fright, involving no physical impact, which results in his disability”
• noting that injury includes whatever change in one’s system produces a lessened facility of a bodily capability
• recognizing recovery without physical impact
• traumatic neurosis caused by sudden shock or fright without any physical impact may be compensable as an injury by accident
• traumatic neurosis caused by sudden shock or fright without any physical impact may be compensable as an injury by accident

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).