SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY v. WORKERS' COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD

No. A113590.

48 Cal.Rptr.3d 330 (2006)

142 Cal.App.4th 500

SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY and Octagon Risk Services, Petitioners, v. WORKERS' COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD and Lesley Hunton, Respondents.

Court of Appeal of California, First District, Division Four.

August 29, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David M. Reynolds, Anne Hernandez, Santa Rosa, Mullen & Filippi, LLP, for Petitioners.

No appearance for Respondent Workers' Compensation Appeals Board.

Matthew A. Schondel, James R. Kneisler, Jr., Santa Rosa, Kneisler Schondel & Hubbs, for Respondent Lesley Hunton.


RIVERA, J.

Workers' compensation law provides that a psychiatric injury is not compensable unless the employee can demonstrate that events of employment "were predominant as to all causes combined of the psychiatric injury." (Lab.Code,1 § 3208.3, subd. (b)(1).) The question presented by this case is whether an employee's psychiatric injury meets the threshold for compensability where the entire psychiatric disability is not predominantly...

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