State Accident Insurance Fund Corp. v. Noffsinger

The issue in this workers’ compensation case is whether claimant, who contends that he suffers from severe depression as a result of job pressures and harassment and horseplay by his co-workers, is entitled to compensation for an occupational disease. The referee and the Workers’ Compensation Board held that he is. SAIF seeks review, and we affirm.

Claimant was 44 at the time of the hearing in this matter. He has a college degree in physical education. Although he taught physical education for one year after graduation, most of his work experience has been in lumber mills. In early 1980, he…