Year: 1984 Source: West Virginia Law Review, v.86, (1984), p.369-392 SIEC No: 19940313

This article notes that many courts have been forced to consider the issue of whether an employee’s suicide which follows a compensable on-the-job injury should constitute a separate ground for worker’s compensation benefits. It calls for more consistency in these adjudications. The article examines 4 types of analyses courts use to establish direct causal relationship & endorses the chain of causation test as it most closely corresponds with modern psychiatric theory. (110 ref/notes.)