holding that a claimant was entitled to benefits where decedent worker’s suicide was caused by “a deranged mental condition” and therefore not intentional
How later courts described this case
- holding that a claimant was entitled to benefits where decedent worker’s suicide was caused by “a deranged mental condition” and therefore not intentional
- adopting chain-of-causation test to examine liability for suicide; rejecting uncontrollable impulse test
- because parties continued to live together after divorce and held themselves out as husband and wife, they were effectively remarried under common law principles
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
McDERMOTT, Justice,
concurring.
I join the majority’s interpretation permitting recovery under the facts of this case; and I am satisfied that the majority’s reasoning is sufficient without reference to other learned text.