Attorneys Question Applicability of Supreme Court Ruling to Psyche Claims

Multiple panelists who spoke at California Applicants Attorneys' Association Winter Convention over the weekend all agreed that the Supreme Court's ruling in South Coast Framing v. WCAB was one of the major case law developments for comp in the past year. But attorneys, and the members of the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board itself, disagree as to how the decision should be applied. The South Coast Framing case involved a dispute over the compensability of a worker's death from a drug overdose. The 4th District Court of Appeals had vacated an award of benefits to the ...