GEORGE W. JACKSON MENTAL HEALTH CENTER v. LAMBIE

No. CA 94-620.

898 S.W.2d 479 (1995)

49 Ark.App. 139

GEORGE W. JACKSON MENTAL HEALTH CENTER, et al., Appellants, v. Elaine LAMBIE, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Arkansas, Division II.

May 24, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard S. Smith, Little Rock, for appellants.

Bill W. Bristow, Jonesboro, for appellee.


MAYFIELD, Judge.

In this workers' compensation case the appellee's husband, an employee of appellant, committed suicide on January 11, 1992. The administrative law judge held that the death was not compensable because of Ark.Code Ann. § 11-9-401(a)(2) (1987), which provides:

However, there shall be no liability for compensation under this chapter where the injury or death from injury was substantially occasioned by intoxication of the injured employee...

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