About 25 percent of workers‘ compensation injury cases arising from the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on New York‘s World Trade Center are being contested by insurers, according to an industry study.
The study, announced last week by the American Society of Workers‘ Comp Professionals, Inc. in Mount Vernon, N.Y., looked at stress claims related to the event.
According to AMCOMP, out of 3,438 cases that were reviewed by the Workers‘ Compensation Mental Stress Council 1,594 involved evidence of stress. Of the 1,594 stress cases, 665 also had evidence of a physical injury, leaving 929 stress-only cases, AMCOMP said.
AMCOMP gave examples of stress cases and how they were treated. One woman who fled her building before its collapse was unable to leave her home for five days when doctor gave her a prescription for mental trauma and depression.
