Hall v. State Workmen's Compensation Commissioner

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• recognizing that “W. Va. Code, 23-4-2 [1969] expressly states that an employee’s death, which results from a self-inflicted injury, is not compensable” (footnote omitted)
• observing that “the general rule, to which the overwhelming majority of jurisdictions adhere, allows compensation if a substantial causal relationship can be shown to exist between a worker’s employment and that worker’s suicide” (footnote omitted)
• employee’s suicide is compensable provided injury sustained arose in the course of and resulted from covered employment

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