Estate of Cleveland v. Heritage Properties, Inc.

MAXWELL, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Amanda “Missy” Cleveland claimed she suffered physical and mental injuries from a filing cabinet falling on her at the apartment complex she managed. After-wards, she attempted suicide several times, was in and out of the emergency room, and eventually overdosed on drugs, dying at the age of forty-one. Cleveland’s mother, as administrator of Cleveland’s estate, sought workers’ compensation disability and death benefits, citing the supposed work accident as the cause. After sifting through evidence of Cleveland’s preexisting conditions, mental illness, drug and…