ABSTRACT
Although insurance medicine consultants are rarely directly involved in deciding whether to grant or refuse a benefit application, their expertise still carries exceptional weight. In Finland, the financial significance of decisions requiring the contribution of a medical examiner represents more than six billion euros annually, which underscores the importance of this area of competence. Notwithstanding this, the extensive literature on ethics and moral philosophy does not expressly address the issue of the ethics of expertise, of which insurance medicine is a good example.8,9
Accordingly, here the issue of recognition of compensible work-related traumatic stress disorder is approached in the context of general ethics and insurance medicine.
