MARTIN v. RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC TRANSIT

No. 83-438-Appeal.

506 A.2d 1365 (1986)

Paul B. MARTIN v. RHODE ISLAND PUBLIC TRANSIT AUTHORITY.

Supreme Court of Rhode Island.

March 28, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert W. Smith, Gunning LaFazia & Gnys, Inc., Providence, for plaintiff.

Seth Bowerman/Kirk Hanson, Hanson, Curran & Parks, Providence, for defendant.


OPINION

SHEA, Justice.

This matter is before the Supreme Court on appeal from a final decree of the appellate commission denying compensation to Paul B. Martin (employee). He had claimed a compensable injury allegedly sustained in September of 1980 as a result of job-related stress. The commission found that the conditions under which the employee had worked did not reach that level of stress under which psychic injury would be compensable. We reverse.<...

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