Free With Registration: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Stephen P. Sonnenberg, a partner at Paul Hastings, and Maria A. Audero, an associate at the firm, write: PTSD, originally a wartime trauma-based psychiatric condition referred to as “shell shock” and “battle fatigue,” is increasingly at issue in employment litigation. Misunderstood and misapplied, PTSD claims by employees are likely to become even more commonplace now that the EEOC proposed regulations under the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 state that a PTSD diagnosis “will consistently result in a finding of [an employee's] disability.”
