Marcus v. Arlington County Board of Supervisors

Opinion

KOONTZ, C.J.

Joanne Marcus (Marcus), claimant, appeals from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Commission (commission) denying her application for compensation. The commission found that Marcus’s condition, “traumatic stress reaction with physical manifestations,” is a noncompensable ordinary disease of life under the Workers’ Compensation Act (Act). Marcus challenges the commission’s decision on the grounds that (1) the commission failed to address her entitlement under the occupational disease provision of the Act, and (2) no credible evidence supports the commission’s finding…