Baker v. City of Sanford

ARNOLD, Chief Judge.

Plaintiffs first three arguments on appeal address the issue of causation, assigning as error the Commission’s finding of fact that plaintiffs disability was not the direct and natural result of his work-related depression, and its conclusions of law that (1) his depression arose from an intervening event and (2) his occupational disease was not disabling.

In determining complex causation in workers’ compensation cases, “the Commission may, of course, consider medical testimony, but its consideration is not limited to such testimony.” Rutledge v. Cultex Corp., 308 N.C. 85,…