Sentences with phrase «compensable psychological injuries»

Compensable psychological injuries must still rise to the level of recognizable psychiatric illness

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Because of the novelty of the claims at the time, we were among the first to challenge the medical and psychological basis of multiple chemical sensitivity syndrome as a compensable injury.

The Commission concluded that «[i] n order for a purely psychological injury to be compensable, the psychological trauma must be related to either a physical injury or a sudden shock or fright caused by circumstances placing the claimant at risk of harm.»

In the latter cases the psychological injury will be compensable on the basis of a pre-existing thin skull, except only in cases where the psychological problem is so dominant as a pre-existing condition and the injuries sustained in the accident are so trivial that the accident can no longer be said to be a sufficient cause in law to support an award of damages on the basis of proximate cause.

All of these physical, psychological, and financial injuries are compensable damages.