Tips Law Journal Vol 56 No 1 - Torrey and DeCarlo

Mental Stress Causing Mental Disability Under Workers' Compensation Laws: A Short History, the Competing Arguments, and a 2021 Inventory by David B. Torrey* and Donald T. DeCarlo - The law of mental stress causing mental disability, and its compensability under workers’ compensation (the law of the “mental-mentals”), has been the subject of considerable study.1 The topic is treated in encyclopedias published for lawyers, most famously in the multi-volume treatise originally authored by Arthur Larson, and now carefully updated on the subject.2 And, when mental-mentals constituted a crisis area of workers’ compensation, the academic law journals were full of pro and con analyses of whether coverage of such claims was proper and, if so, under what conditions.3 Such analyses can still be found in the present day.