Duggan v. State Accident Insurance Fund

In this worker’s compensation case the referee held that claimant’s condition was not stationary and that she was entitled to have her claim reopened. The Workers’ Compensation Board and the circuit court held to the contrary. All three wrote unusually detailed opinions, perhaps the most detailed of the three being that of the trial judge with whose analysis we agree and from which we quote in pertinent part:

"This Court agrees with the Workmen’s Compensation Board that the Claimant in this case has not met her burden of proving that her psychological problems were caused by or contributed to…