In Walls v Colliers Turley Martin Tucker, Injury No. 00-07106 (LIRC) 2002, suicide claim denied, claimant’s loved ones noticing a traumatic change in his physical and emotional well being for months before the day he left work, even though he worked many hours overtime (dates and times not recorded), time sheets contradictory. Wife said employee had tried to “quit his job, was talked out of it, and then took his life with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. (ALJ Boresi)
In Greenlee v Dukes Plastering Service, 75 S.W.3d 273, (Sup., banc) 2002, claimant died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound pending the award of permanent total disability benefits to him by the LIRC , all evidence showed that the hanging drywall job exposed him to a risk of depression greater than the general March 19, 2003 public. The claimant died more than 300 weeks after the accident, the death was not the result of an occupational disease, and Section 287.020 bars recovery of death benefits (claim must be made within 300 weeks of death).