Southwire Co. v. George

We granted certiorari to clarify the proper standard for determining when psychic injury is compensable under the Workers’ Compensation Act. Language in previous Court of Appeals cases has suggested, as the ALJ held in this case, that psychic trauma is compensable only if it arises directly from a compensable physical injury.2 This standard essentially requires a proximate cause link between the physical and psychic injuries. The Court of Appeals in this case and in others, however, has held that a lesser causation standard is appropriate, and that psychic trauma is compensable when it arises…