Schreckengast v. Hammermills, Inc.

CARTER, Justice.

Worker’s compensation claimant, John F. Schreckengast, appeals from a decision on judicial review affirming the industrial commissioner’s denial of worker’s compensation benefits. We affirm the district court’s decision.

The record reflects that claimant had been employed with the appellee employer for thirty-one years prior to becoming permanently and totally disabled from a mental illness manifested by severe depression and diagnosed as a unipolar affective disorder, depressed type. At the hearing held before the industrial commissioner on the ensuing worker’s compensation…