Carling National Breweries v. McClure

Employer seeks review of an order of the Workers’ Compensation Board (Board) awarding widow’s benefits to claimant, the surviving spouse of a worker who committed suicide during a time when he was receiving permanent total disability benefits. We affirm.

The relevant facts are not in dispute. Daryl McClure fell at work and broke his back in several places. He was awarded permanent total disability benefits. Some years later, McClure committed suicide. There is no connection between the suicide and claimant’s work-related injury; the suicide apparently was the result of McClure’s depression…