Charles Cory-Wright QC, for the Trust, told the court that
nervous shock victims are normally only awarded compensation if it can be proved that the sudden witnessing of a traumatic event, at first hand, led to a psychiatric injury.
At first glance, in the passage quoted above, he appears to intend the phrase "recognizable psychiatric injury" as the medical equivalent of "
nervous shock".
Judge Dearden ordered JPS pay AJC 18,750 dollars in compensation for the mental or
nervous shock caused to her.
Mr Marsden suffered
nervous shock and psychological trauma after discovering his son's body.
The 43-year-old, an IT manager, suffered
nervous shock and psychological trauma after discovering his son's body.
"Any time you foul on the your first attempt, you get a
nervous shock," he said.
Locals, some of whom scorned and hit Oweid, said the young man takes Artane pills every day, paid for by Fatah, and blamed his condition on
nervous shock from when Israel bombed the camp during the Civil War in the 1980s.
The widow sued for
nervous shock. Everyone knew who was going to win the case when Denning opened his judgment with the immortal line: 'It was bluebell time in Kent.'
A bullied employee could sue you for intentional infliction of
nervous shock. To succeed he or she would have to prove that you engaged in outrageous conduct that was intended to and did harm the employee such as by causing an illness.
She said the attack caused "severe
nervous shock and mental anguish, great physical pain and emotional upset".
(43) 1866 saw the landmark publication of John Eric Erichsen's On Railway and Other Injuries of the Nervous System in which he established the notion of
nervous shock, a condition remarkable for the disjunction between an accident to the body and its effects.