Redfern v. Sparks-Withington Co.

Anna Redfern, Joseph Pastaleniec and Walter L. Legut suffered work-related injuries, and compensation for general disability was paid.

In these cases, consolidated on appeal, the workers asserted that as a consequence of their physical injuries they suffered mental illness or cognitive loss constituting "incurable insanity or imbecility” and, therefore, additional compensation should be paid for "total and permanent disability".1

*71The facts and history of the litigation are set forth in fns 2-4.

The Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board declared that

—while in its judgment Redfern’s mental illness…