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MEANS v. BALTIMORE COUNTY

No. 20, Sept. Term 1996.

689 A.2d 1238 (1997)

344 Md. 661

Doreen Kay MEANS v. BALTIMORE COUNTY, Maryland.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

March 4, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry W. Blondell (Bruce D. Hechmer, William J. Blondell, Jr., Chartered, on brief), Baltimore, for Appellant.

Mathew A. Weir, Assistant County Attorney (Virginia W. Barnhart, County Attorney, all on brief), Towson, for Appellee.

Argued before BELL, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, KARWACKI, RAKER and WILNER, JJ.

RAKER, Judge.

In this Workers' Compensation case, we must decide whether post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) unaccompanied by physical disease may be compensable as an occupational disease under the Maryland Workers' Compensation Act, now codified as Title 9 of the Labor and Employment Article of the Maryland Code (1991 Repl.Vol., 1996 Cum. Supp.).1 We shall hold that PTSD can be compensable as an occupational disease.

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