Opinion ID: 2570165
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 9

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Text: We conclude that suicides may be nonwillful deaths under Nevada's workers' compensation law if they are sufficiently causally connected to an industrial injury. In reaching this conclusion, we adopt the chain-of-causation test to determine whether a sufficient causal connection exists. With respect to the appeals officer's decision in this case, we conclude that it was based on a clearly erroneous application of the chain-of-causation test and is unsupported in the record. Accordingly, we reverse the district court's order denying Vredenburg's petition for judicial review and remand this matter with instructions to the district court to, in turn, remand the matter to the appeals officer for proceedings consistent with the standard announced in this opinion. We concur: GIBBONS, C.J., MAUPIN, HARDESTY, DOUGLAS and CHERRY, JJ.