Emotional liability for employee emotional distress claims.

Review of Business;  January 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......crippling liability are offered. Emotional distress suits are frequently brought in conjunction...ill [9]. In many suits involving emotional distress, the employee argues that the same...injuries. An employee who brings an emotional distress suit may be motivated by the possibility...

MCAD brief causes emotional distress.(News)

The Boston Herald;  June 3, 2001 ;     621 words ......report notes, was awarded $25,000 in emotional distress damages. Is this is a great country...additional punitive damages, for emotional distress, as the MCAD calls it. The oldtimer...325 in lost wages and $20,000 in emotional distress. If you hire a temporary secretary...

Response to "Impact of HIV on Emotional Distress of Infected Women:...

Scholarly Inquiry for Nursing Practice;  January 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......chronic illness, and of the experience of women coping with their own HIV infection in particular. It is...of Lazarus and colleagues' stress, appraisal, and coping framework (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984). Stress...appraisal of the situation. Within this framework, coping is the process of managing the ...

Emotional distress and infertility: Turkish migrant couples compared to...

Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology;  June 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......in the effects of infertility on emotional distress. The study compares emotional distress among infertile people in three samples...women. In general, the levels of emotional distress were higher for infertile Turkish...

MCAD report is enough to create emotional distress.

The Boston Herald;  June 12, 1998 ;     577 words ......health insurance costs and $50,000 in emotional distress damages. Emotional distress - don't you love that expression? Here...him he suffered ... you guessed it, emotional distress. The cost to the Salvation Army: $5...

A Community Study on Emotional Distress Among the Elderly in Israel

The Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......constitute a group at risk for elevated emotional distress. The Ministry of Health, the Central...status of the elderly, including emotional distress and selective determinants. Objective...paper reports the distribution of the emotional distress mean scores by socio-demographic...

Penn. Court of Appeals rules bystanders can recover damages for emotional...

Lawyers USA;  September 22, 2008 ;     353 words ......plaintiffs can recover damages for the emotional distress suffered when they observed an allegedly...children filed separate claims for the emotional distress they suffered as the result of witnessing...injury to a close relative can recover emotional distress damages when the ...

Emotional distress injuries covered by uninsured motorist insurance, rules...

Lawyers USA;  January 29, 2007 ;     394 words ......but refused to pay the passengers' emotional distress claims. The insurer contended that...that the physical manifestations of emotional distress at seeing his mother bloody and presumed...s] physical manifestation of his emotional distress constitutes a physical harm to his...

No coverage for bystander's emotional distress, rules Connecticut Supreme...

Lawyers USA;  August 25, 2008 ;     190 words ......policy doesn't cover a bystander's emotional distress claim, the Connecticut Supreme Court...plaintiff claimed that she suffered emotional distress as a result of witnessing the bodily...additional $100,000, claiming that the emotional distress she suffered constituted a separate...

Mother can sue for emotional distress even though she wasn't child's...

Lawyers USA;  September 10, 2007 ;     293 words ......claim of intentional infliction of emotional distress based on the events surrounding her...sued for intentional infliction of emotional distress, claiming that she was not told of...damages for intentional infliction of emotional distress from ill treatment at the minor's...

$825,000 AWARDED FOR EMOTIONAL DISTRESS WAL-MART PREVIOUSLY WAS ORDERED TO...

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  October 20, 1999 ;     305 words ......jury awarded $825,000 in damages for emotional distress Monday to a Pine Junction man who...physical impairment, economic loss and emotional distress, which the jury awarded him in 1995...rejected $1 million of that award for emotional distress damages and sent the case back for...

Emotional distress: ARE STATUTORY CAPS A GOOD IDEA?

DVM;  June 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......applied to allow for recoveries of emotional distress or pain and suffering damages for...medical malpractice, claimants for emotional distress damages often are limited to the...caps for the negligent infliction of emotional distress (NIED), but no caps for intentional...

1st Circuit Court eules fired FedEx employee can't recover for emotional...

Lawyers USA;  September 8, 2008 ;     390 words ......not for intentional infliction of emotional distress, the 1st Circuit has ruled in vacating...libel and intentional infliction of emotional distress. He testified about his sleepless...claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress. The court disagreed. "[T]o the extent...

Medical damages not necessary to prove emotional distress

St. Louis Daily Record / St. Louis Countian;  August 30, 2007 ;     564 words ......alleging intentional infliction of emotional distress do not have to prove medical damages...medical testimony in all types of emotional distress claims. That was a wrong interpretation...claims of negligent infliction of emotional distress, which do require medical proof of...

HIV-exposed nurse can get emotional distress damages, rules New York's...

Lawyers USA;  February 25, 2008 ;     294 words ...A nurse exposed to HIV can obtain emotional distress damages, even after testing showed...sued for negligent infliction of emotional distress, claiming her post-traumatic stress...The hospital argued her damages for emotional distress should be limited to just the six-mon...