Claim of Kwintner v. Madamoiselle Personnel

—Mugglin, J.

Appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Board, filed November 15, 2001, which ruled that claimant did not sustain a compensable injury.

Claimant filed a claim for workers’ compensation benefits after she suffered a mental breakdown allegedly as a result of her employer’s “verbal tirade” on April 18, 1996. The employer controverted the claim. Thereafter, various hearings were held during which the Workers’ Compensation Law Judge (hereinafter WCLJ) requested that claimant submit prima facie medical evidence of a causally related psychiatric injury. When claimant failed to…