After having provided public service in the crucial area of critical incidents as a crisis responder for six years, I have been told by the City's workers' comp insurance carrier (it's self-insured) that my mental stress injury was caused by a single incident of my seeing a friend (SF Sheriff's Dept employee) severely disabled from stress that caused her to have an anneurism. Through their QME, they are saying the various symptoms I've displayed -- which are more consistent with sympathetic trauma, vicarious trauma, stress-affected adrenal gland -- and manifests itself via PTSD, severe depression, severe anxiety and hypertension (PCP's diagnosis) are 51% caused NOT BY MY JOB and therefore, my claim was DENIED any workers' comp benefits not paid. Yet, they (the City) has offered to settle first for $65K, then for $75K. The judge says my case is worth $100K. But, my attorney (Marina Ramos-Wynn) says it's ALL or NOTHING and if I go to trial and lose, I get NOTHING! Meanwhile, DPH gets off scott free after not providing mental health counseling or debriefings, knowing the affects of me doing my job without them! THIS IS UNFAIR and I feel in retaliation for exercising rights to free speech, etc. Their QME had earlier admitted 100% industrial as far as the PTSD, but has since retracked it after being deposed. I was also deposed by the City Attorney, who I opposed in a speech at City Hall at a demonstration against Gang Injunctions. I was a member of the African-American Community Police Relations Board. During the same speech, I talked about the racism that is prevalent at DPH, who did not inform me of entitlement to Long Term Disability benefits for 1.5 years after I was removed from work by my doctor and caused me to nearly be evicted from my home and my car to be repossessed. I lived on an income of ZERO for some time because of it and reduced to applying for GA and food stamps!