SAUMS v. RALEIGH COMMUNITY HOSP.

No. COA95-1303.

476 S.E.2d 372 (1996)

Hattie SAUMS, Employee, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. RALEIGH COMMUNITY HOSPITAL, Employer, Continental Insurance Company (Continental Loss Adjusting, Adjusting Agent), Carrier, Defendant-Appellants.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

October 15, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Law Offices of John T. Orcutt by John T. Orcutt, and Law Offices of Nancy P. White by Nancy P. White, Raleigh, for plaintiff-appellee.

Teague, Campbell, Dennis & Gorham, L.L.P. by Thomas M. Clare and Mallory A. Taylor, Raleigh, for defendant-appellants.


GREENE, Judge.

Raleigh Community Hospital (employer) and Continental Insurance Company (Continental Insurance) (collectively defendants) appeal the award by the North Carolina Industrial Commission (the Commission) of ongoing total disability to Hattie Saums (Saums).

On 22 September 1989, Saums, a fifty-three-year-old female with a ninth-grade education, sustained an injury to her back arising out of her employment as a housekeeper with the employer. In November...

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