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 Prior Relationship Common Factor in Workplace Homicides: Study Offers Guidance, by John Stahl, Esq. The December 2012 incident at the Sandy Hook Elementary School is a recent example of a mass shooting affecting a person in a workplace (e.g., school principal) with whom the shooter has a prior relationship. A concurrent article in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine addresses the related phenomenon of workplace homicides in which the assailant has a relationship with either the business or an employee. Read more.
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 Mental Injury Claim for Witnessing Suicide, by Thomas A. Robinson. Because of perceived potential abuses in the establishment of mental injury claims, a number of states either exclude coverage altogether or require some sort of heightened level of proof in order for the employee to prevail. For example, Wisconsin bars coverage for mental claims if the employee did not experience an event that "was so unexpected and unforeseen that it constituted unusual stress of greater dimensions than the day-to-day emotional strain and tension experienced by similarly situated employees" Construing that rule, a Wisconsin appellate court recently affirmed an award in the mental injury claim of a deputy sheriff who witnessed a person who he was transporting inflict fatal wounds on himself. Read more about this case and other cases on Odd-Lot Theory, Unwitnessed Death, and Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress.
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Workplace Homicide
Workers' Comp Fraud Blotter: Injured Worker Bench Presses 500 Pounds. 
California: WCAB Declines to Accept Jurisdiction Over Out of State NFL Player, by Richard M. Jacobsmeyer, Esq. 
California SB 863 Reforms: Adjusters Should Adjust - The Blowback From UR and IMR, by Robert G. Rassp, Esq. 
Missouri: Polio Renders Worker Totally Disabled, by Martin Klug, Esq. 
