GRIFFIN v. RED & WHITE SUPERMARKET

No. 8510IC619.

337 S.E.2d 657 (1985)

Cynthia GRIFFIN, Employee-Plaintiff, v. RED & WHITE SUPERMARKET, Employer, and Aetna Life & Cas. Ins. Co., Carrier-Defendants.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

December 31, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shope, McNeil & Maddox by E. Thomas Maddox, Jr., Greensboro, for plaintiff-appellee.

Smith, Moore, Smith, Schell & Hunter by J. Donald Cowan, Jr. and Jeri L. Whitfield, Greensboro, for defendants-appellants.


WEBB, Judge.

This appeal brings to the Court the question whether an employee may recover under the Worker's Compensation Act for disability and for serious facial disfigurement, both resulting from loss of vision to an eye, when there has been no enucleation and the eye has been fitted with an artificial shield. The plaintiff concedes that there has been no damage to the facial tissue surrounding the eye and that the only injury is to the eye itself. Therefore we...

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