Deziel v. Difco Laboratories, Inc.

These three cases were remanded to the Workmen’s Compensation Appeal Board (WCAB) for further proceedings and a clear statement in each case of the underlying reasons for the subsequent findings, Deziel v Difco Laboratories, Inc, 394 Mich 466; 232 NW2d 146 (1975). The WCAB has returned the cases with findings as ordered.

Our focus is upon the standards or criteria to be used in determining whether the employer was statutorily responsible for the employees’ mental disorder. In each case the employee had "imagined/perceived/hallucinated”1 a disabling injury.

The Michigan worker’s disability act…