An employer's awareness that an employee is suffering workplace stress does not automatically make it reasonably foreseeable that the employee will suffer a psychiatric illness. Findings in workers' compensation proceedings, which address different statutory requirements, do not create an estoppel in common law negligence proceedings. To rely on the [name withheld] v [name withheld] rule on appeal, an appellant must identify specific findings of fact affected by the failure to call a witness, not merely refer to general areas of evidence.
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