United States Ninth Circuit

Evidence that a claimant planned his suicide does not necessarily preclude compensation under the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act because the proper inquiry is whether the claimant's work-related injury caused him to attempt suicide, so claimant's petition for review of the Benefits Review Board's decision is granted, and the matter is remanded for the Board or the Administrative Law Judge to apply the proper chain of causation test, and not the irresistible impulse test.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/09/2013
• Published 04/09/2013

Judges

• THOMAS

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel