McCoy v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board

Opinion by

Judge Palladino,

Diane McCoy appeals from an order of the Workmens Compensation Appeal Board which upheld a referees decision denying Petitioners fetal claim petition for her husbands suicide under Section 301(a) of The Pennsylvania Workmen’s Compensation Act.1 We affirm.

*438McCoys husband died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on December 9, 1979. He left a note telling his wife not to go into the garage but to call the police from her mothers home. Prior to his suicide, the husband saw a Board-certified psychotherapist, who later testified that stress from the severe financial…