Iverson v. State Accident Insurance Fund

The determinative issue in this workmen’s compensation case is that of causation. The referee, Workmen’s Compensation Board and circuit court each found that claimant had not established by a preponderance of evidence that his debilitating condition— rheumatoid spondylitis — had "arise[n] out of and in the scope of [his] employment,” i.e., that his employment had either caused or aggravated the condition in any material way,1 and accordingly denied his claim for compensation benefits. Claimant appeals, contending that his employment, involving relatively strenuous labor, did in fact aggravate…