Sonoma State University v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board

Opinion

RIVERA, J.

Workers’ compensation law provides that a psychiatric injury is not compensable unless the employee can demonstrate that events of employment “were predominant as to all causes combined of the psychiatric injury.” (Lab. Code, 1 § 3208.3, subd. (b)(1).) The question presented by this case is whether an employee’s psychiatric injury meets the threshold for compensability where the entire psychiatric disability is not predominantly work induced but where one (or more) of several diagnosed psychiatric conditions is entirely (or predominantly) work induced. We conclude that a…