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PALMER v. JACKSON

No. COA03-16.

590 S.E.2d 275 (2003)

Maria Teresa PALMER, Guardian Ad Litem for J. Carmen Fuentes, Employee/Plaintiff, v. W. Brent JACKSON d/b/a Jackson's Farming Company, Employer, and Companion Property & Casualty, Carrier/ Defendants.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

December 16, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Massengill & Bricio, P.L.L.C., by Francisco J. Bricio; and White & Allen, P.A., by Thomas J. White, III, Cary, for plaintiff appellant-appellee.

Morris York Williams Surles & Barringer, L.L.P., by John F. Morris and Keith B. Nichols, Charlotte, for defendant appellants-appellees.

McCULLOUGH, Judge.

On 10 July 1998, J. Carmen Fuentes (Carmen) suffered a compensable heatstroke. Since then, Carmen has been in a coma or persistent vegetative state and requires twenty-four-hour nursing care. Carmen returned to Mexico, and his father, Porfirio Fuentes (Porfirio), and his sister, Yolanda Fuentes (Yolanda), provided around-the-clock care from 4 November 1998 to 15 June 1999 and from 27 June 1999 to 13 May 2001. Yolanda provided twelve hours of care...

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