Stress-Related Injuries Overview

To receive workers’ compensation benefits for a work-related psychiatric or stress injury, an employee must show that the work-related stress was the “predominant cause” of the psychiatric injury.¹That is, more than 50 percent of the cause of the employee’s psychiatric injury must come from actual events of their work, rather than from all other non-industrial stressors that can include issues with the employee’s family and personal life, as well as financial, health or other concerns, and issues not relating to employment.

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It is the burden of the employee to provide “objective evidence” of the events of²