Normally Abnormal: How High-Stress Jobs May Qualify As Abnormal Working Conditions
What You Will Learn
- Attend this program to hear more about workers' compensation mental injury claims, their impact on mental health, and recent case law in this area.
What You Will Learn
- Attend this program to hear more about workers' compensation mental injury claims, their impact on mental health, and recent case law in this area.
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$60
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60 minutes
Date Published
February 20, 2026
Publisher
Philadelphia Bar Association
Subjects
Other, Workers’ Compensation
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Normally Abnormal: How High-Stress Jobs May Qualify As Abnormal Working Conditions
Program Originally Presented Friday, February 20, 2026
Psychological injuries remain one of the most complicated and controversial topics in Pennsylvania workers’ compensation law. Often, practitioners are wary of taking cases described as “mental/mental” injuries; that is, injuries where the injured worker does not suffer direct physical harm. Further, once an injury a mental injury is accepted or adjudicated, the level of impairment is often difficult to determine.
In this CLE course, Dr. Joan A. Feinstein will discuss the “invisible impairment” of psychological injuries, the impact that a physical injury can have on an injured workers’ mental health, and the standards used to diagnose a work-related mental injury.
In addition, Dr. Feinstein will highlight the recent case-law development in Ganley v. Upper Darby Twp. (WCAB), 2025 Pa Commw. Lexis 180, 770 C.D. 2024 (Pa. Cmwlth. 2025), where the Commonwealth Court addressed abnormal working conditions in the context of a firefighter providing ultimately unsuccessful CPR to infants. Dr. Feinstein will offer her perspective as a psychological expert on the implications of abnormal working conditions with a focus on high stress occupations.
Attend this program to hear more about workers' compensation mental injury claims, their impact on mental health, and recent case law in this area.
Featured Speaker:
Dr. Joan Feinstein, PhD., J.D.
Attorney and Psychologist, Yardley
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