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Liability Risk and Insurance

Harm of stress must be reasonably foreseeable

If an employee was to recover damages for psychiatric injury caused by stress at work, it need to be shown that the employee had exhibited enough signs of stress for it to be reasonably foreseeable by the employer that the stress would cause injury to health.

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