In Pearl v. Workers' Comp. Appeals Bd. (2001) 26 Cal.4th 189, a state university police officer was subjected by his supervisor and other officers to the sort of things that would ordinarily form the basis of a claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress: He was the brunt of a series of cruel practical jokes, including being falsely informed that he was the subject of an internal affairs investigation and having a packet of firecrackers set off in a toilet stall he was in. On top of that his brother murdered his sister-in-law and then committed suicide, and the officer went through his own divorce and custody dispute. ( Pearl, supra, 26 Cal.4th at pp. 191-192.) The issue which the Supreme Court addressed was whether a Public Employees Retirement System statute or a workers' compensation statute determined whether the injury was "industrial" in character.