occupational factors in Michigan

2023The Farrington test was clarified, in part, by Lombardi v William Beaumont Hosp (On Remand), 199 Mich App 428 (1993), which held that the “significant manner” test requires analysis of whether the events occurring at work had more than a minor contributing, aggravating, or accelerating effect in the overall psychiatric scheme, which involves reviewing and comparing all the factors contributing to the disability, both occupational and nonoccupational; in evaluating mental injuries, all nonoccupational factors must be measured against all occupational factors to determine if the significant mann

1996The Court there declared: The heart injury must be significantly caused or aggravated by employment considering the totality of all the occupational factors and the claimant’s health circumstances and nonoccupational factors. 17 In Gardner , the concept, so stated in Farrington , that the determination whether the claimed injury was significantly contributed to, aggravated, or accelerated by the employment, should take into consideration the totality of all the occupational factors and the claimant’s health circumstances and nonoccupational factors, was held to be applicable in mental disabili

1996A claimant’s preexisting condition does not bar recovery . . . .” (Emphasis added.) The Court said that “[a]bsent an explicit legislative mandate, mental disabilities should not be treated differently,” with the result that the inquiry is whether the claimant “regardless of preexisting conditions, sustained an injury that arose out of and in the course of employment.” 39 Id. at 48-49 .