Nave v. State Compensation Mutual Insurance Fund

Appellant Debra Nave, claimant’s widow, appeals from an order and judgment of the Montana Workers’ Compensation Court. The Workers’ Compensation Court Hearings Examiner’s findings of fact and conclusions of law stated that Mr. Nave’s (Nave) suicide was not causally related to his on-the-job injury and denied appellant’s request for attorney’s fees and a twenty percent penalty award. We affirm.

We review the following dispositive issue: Whether the Workers’ Compensation Court erred in determining that Nave’s on-the-job injury was not the proximate cause of his suicide.

Nave was a…