State Accident Insurance Fund Corp. v. Gygi

*572RICHARDSON, P. J.

The State Accident Insurance Fund appeals from the order of the Workers’ Compensation Board which affirmed the hearing referee’s decision that claimant’s mental illness is a compensable occupational disease. SAIF contends the Board erred in determining that claimant’s psychiatric disability was caused or aggravated by on-the-job stress. ORS 656.802(1)(a). We review de novo, ORS 656.298(6), and affirm.

Claimant has been a self-employed1 attorney since his graduation from law school in 1960. He specialized in business and corporation law, and in the late 1960’s he became…