SAIF Corp. v. Campbell

Employer seeks review of a Workers’ Compensation Board order that held claimant’s mental disorder claim compensable under ORS 656.802(l)(b).1 The Board held that the stressful conditions that caused claimant’s illness were the result of conditions other than those generally inherent in every working situation. ORS 656.802(2)(b).2 We affirm.

The Board found:

“Claimant suffered a bipolar manic depressive psychotic episode, the cause or worsening of which arose out of and in the course of his employment at St. Vincent de Paul. That diagnosed mental disorder is generally recognized in the medical…