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STRICKLAND v. BURLINGTON INDUSTRIES, INC.

No. 8610IC1273.

359 S.E.2d 19 (1987)

Mary Alene STRICKLAND, Employee, Plaintiff v. BURLINGTON INDUSTRIES, INC., Employer, and Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., Carrier, Defendants.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

August 18, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lore & McClearen by R. Edwin McClearen, Raleigh, for employee-plaintiff.

Smith, Anderson, Blount, Dorsett, Mitchell & Jernigan by C. Ernest Simons and Steven M. Sartorio, Raleigh, for defendants.

ORR, Judge.

I.

Defendants argue that plaintiff failed to prove that she sustained a compensable occupational lung disease, because there was no evidence that her respiratory problems were caused by her employment at Burlington Industries. We disagree.

To receive benefits for an occupational disease under the Workers' Compensation Act, N.C.G.S. Chapter 97, there must be a causal connection between the plaintiff's disease and her employment. Rutledge...

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