Martin v. Rhode Island Public Transit Authority

OPINION

SHEA, Justice.

This matter is before the Supreme Court on appeal from a final decree of the appellate commission denying compensation to Paul B. Martin (employee). He had claimed a compensable injury allegedly sus-. tained in September of 1980 as a result of job-related stress. The commission found that the conditions under which the employee had worked did not reach that level of stress under which psychic injury would be compensable. We reverse.

The employee filed an original petition seeking compensation for “[njervousness, anxiety, loss of appetite, sweatiness,” which he claimed was…