Hammons v. City of Highland Park Police Department

The question, as stated by defendant-appellant City of Highland Park, is whether "the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board err[ed] as a matter of law by not applying the chain-of-causation test to determine whether or not the deceased’s suicide resulted from a personal injury *4arising out of and in the course of employment.” We hold that the WCAB did not so err, and affirm.

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Arlie C. Hammons committed suicide on December 26, 1974. Pamela Hammons, his former wife, filed a claim for death benefits under the workers’ compensation act on her own behalf and on behalf of her minor children. A hearing…