McGrath v. State Department of Public Safety

OPINION

By the Court, Parraguirre, J.:

In this appeal, we consider whether a workers’ compensation claimant who alleges that she has suffered extreme and unusual stress on the job is required to pinpoint a discrete, identifiable event giving rise to the stress. Because the plain, unambiguous language of NRS 616C.180 indicates that a workers’ compensation claimant must establish a causal relationship between her mental injuries and a discrete, identifiable, traumatic event and because the claimant here has not done so, we affirm the district court’s order denying judicial review of the appeals…