Key legal question
Whether the robbery had adequate causal link to the claimant's continuing psychiatric disorder under accident insurance law.
Extracted holding
The robbery was a short, non-violent shock event that, even considering the claimant's pre-existing vulnerability, was not objectively apt to cause long-lasting psychiatric disability; the adequate causal link was denied.
Extracted reasoning
Under the ordinary course of events and general life experience, such a brief robbery without serious bodily harm or prolonged terror is typically overcome within weeks or months. The claimant's prior burden did not make the reaction objectively adequate.