Ainsworth v. SAIF Corp.

Claimant in this workers’ compensation case challenges an administrative rule under which a worker who has sustained compensable brain damage from an injury cannot receive benefits for psychiatric impairment caused by the same injury even when the psychiatric impairment alone, or the two impairments in conjunction, are more extensive than the organic brain damage alone. Claimant argues that the rule is inconsistent with its authorizing statutes because those statutes require that compensation be based on the total extent of disability resulting from an injury. She further argues that the rule…