Compensation for stress illness due to mismanagement?

[Ann Marie]

What is the name of your state? RI

Is it possible to file a claim for workman's compensation for stress related illnesses such as shingles if you can demonstrate that poor management and poor program implementation were ongoing and I could provide multiple examples of such along with documented efforts to address the situation(s) with my supervisors over the course of more than a year? Would this be another type of suit like 'employer negligence resulting in injury' or something like that?

 

[moburkes]

A WC claim is not necessarily an employer's fault. Good luck. You'll have a hard time getting that approved. Why didn't you just quit?

 

[msiron]

Yes I have seen comp cases go though with many kinds of work related stress. injury.

 

[Ann Marie]

Investment fallacy I guess

I didn't 'just quit' because the agency has a noble mission statement and I couldn't 'just quit' on the girls like so many others in their lives already had. In July of 2006 I approached the Ex. Dir. - he reassured me and I gave myself 3 months to see improvements. In October the agency hired a consultant - my hope was rekindled. By January 2007 the ED had been let go, the consultant had been hired as the acting ED, another employee was terminated and a search was started for new leadership. So I figured I'd give it another 3 months - By April 2007 the search had been halted for an ED and program management was making only nominal improvement - yet not learning from recent history so I spoke up again. This is when I began to consider taking on the ED role. In my heart of hearts I just wanted to see these girls have an opportunity to experience some healthy nurturing and a few personal successes to begin to experience a different reality than one of dysfunction, abuse, and disappointment. I'm an idealist at heart yet I know the realities of hardship and suffering and their long range impact on individuals and society all too well. In May 2007 I was terminated. Last week I had reports of continued program dysfuction.
Perhaps if I could make a case somehow - a legal case - the tragedy of this experience could be stopped finally and some of these children / young ladies could actually get what the agency and state promise to provide for them.

 

[cbg]

While it is *possible* to get a stress claim through workers comp, it is not even remotely guaranteed. While they CAN go through, most are denied.