Worker Should Have Received Ruling on Compensability of Mental Injury

The Hawaii Supreme Court ruled that a worker was wrongfully denied a determination on whether her depression was compensable. Case: Cui v. Hawaii Department of Health, No. SCWC-16-0000828, 05/24/2021, unpublished. Facts and procedural history: Kate Cui worked for the Hawaii Department of Health as an epidemiologist. In August 2009, she filed a workers’ compensation claim for a mental injury that she sustained as a result of harassment by her supervisor. The department accepted liability for Cui’s diagnosis of adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood. In March 2...