Adsitt v. Clairmont Water District

Claimant seeks review of a Workers’ Compensation Board order which denied her on the job stress claim. On de novo review we find that claimant suffered an exacerbation of her pre-existing mental disease and that work stress was the major contributing cause of the exacerbation. We therefore reverse and remand for acceptance of the claim.

Claimant, who is in her early fifties, has a long history of alcohol abuse accompanying or caused by depression and low self-esteem, all superimposed on a hysterical personality. She has frequent mood shifts and cries easily. At the time in question she was…