Schell v. Buell ECD Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Sponatski's Case · Garcia v. Genuine Parts Co. · 38 Wis. 2d 84 - Brenne v. Department of Industry, Labor & Human Relations · Graver Tank & Manufacturing Co. v. Industrial Commission · Claim of Delinousha v. National Biscuit Co.
Most-quoted passages
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“[T]he appropriate test to be adopted in Virginia is that designated as the chain-of-causation rule, wherein where the injury and its consequences directly result in the worker’s loss of normal judgment and domination by a disturbance of the mind causing the suicide, his suicide is compensable, with a suicide committed by the worker suffering from this degree of disturbance not to be considered “willful” or an “intentional” injury even though the action is volitional since the suicide relates back to the original injury rather than existing independently of the injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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