LABOR & INDUSTRIES v. KINVILLE

No. 5645-3-II.

35 Wn. App. 80 (1983)

664 P.2d 1311

THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIES, Respondent, v. KATHLEEN KINVILLE, Appellant.

The Court of Appeals of Washington, Division Two.

June 20, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Frank Stubbs, for appellant.

Kenneth O. Eikenberry, Attorney General, and Carol Molchoir and Thomas Chapman, Assistants, for respondent.


REED, J.

Claimant Kathleen Kinville appeals from a Superior Court order reversing the Board of Industrial Insurance Appeals' allowance of her occupational disease claim for a psychiatric condition. The crucial issue on appeal is whether claimant's psychiatric condition constitutes a compensable occupational disease under the Washington Industrial Insurance Act. RCW 51.08.140. We hold that claimant's condition fails to qualify as an occupational disease because it...

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