Legal Question in Personal Injury in Michigan

You can, but you likely wouldn't be successful. To properly answer your question, a lawyer would need more information that just this question to answer you. A claim against anyone for IIED is not the primary claim - it is usually an additional claim to negligence, discrimination, harassment, etc. Additionally, the emotionally traumatic behavior must have been directed at you, causing you damages, and not simply someone else undergoing distress, and then you feel the effects of it. Technically there is no legal claim for "financial distress," but you likely mean something else. Re-post your question with the brief facts that you believe may give rise to a cause of action (lawsuit) against the former employer, so that a lawyer may answer you more specifically. Thank you.

Depending on how and what happened, your fiance might be entitled to file a Michigan Workers' Compensation action. As Audra said, you have not provided enough facts. For your fiance to successfully pursue the Workers' Comp case, he/she must show disability caused by the emotional distress, not just emotional distress.