Baker v. Administrator, Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation

Gorman, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered after a jury found that the plaintiff-appellee, Anita Baker, was entitled to participate in the Workers’ Compensation Fund. The basis of Baker’s claim against the fund was that her husband, Mark Baker, had killed himself because he was suffering from “a disturbance of the mind” resulting from a previous occupational injury. In his appeal, the Administrator argues that the trial court erred by (1) failing to grant his motion for a directed verdict, (2) precluding him from impeaching Baker with a previous conviction for theft against the…