Bachula v. General Motors Corp.

This is a workers’ compensation case in which the nature of the claimed disability is "nerves” caused by "stressful activities as a committeeman which precipitated nervous condition.” The petition for hearing further claimed that when plaintiff lost his bid for reelection as a committeeman and returned to work, he was in "an environment that did not like ex-committeemen” and that this environment "further aggravated his condition to the point of disability.”

The hearing referee judge denied benefits, but the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board reversed, finding that plaintiff proved a disabling…