While the legal community is increasingly acknowledging the relationship between the pressures of the profession and stress-induced health issues, a recent Pennsylvania appellate ruling shows that proving the existence of such a link in the courtroom can be challenging.

The Commonwealth Court on July 29 affirmed the denial of workers’ compensation death benefits to a woman who claimed her husband died of a heart attack caused by “psychosocial stress related to his work as a workers’ compensation attorney.”

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