Claim Case Studies & Legislation - Hussack v. Chilliwack School District No.33

Devon Hussack, a Grade 7 student at Vedder Middle School in Chilliwack, was hit in the face with a field hockey stick while playing in a scrimmage during physical education class. He suffered a concussion which, overtime, developed into a more serious condition known as «somatoform» disorder. This is a condition that is described as a psychiatric illness where physical symptoms, including pain have no physiological basis.