WINDERS v. EDGECOMBE CTY. HOME HEALTH CARE

No. COA07-489.

653 S.E.2d 575 (2007)

Karyn WINDERS, Employee, Plaintiff-Appellee v. EDGECOMBE COUNTY HOME HEALTH CARE, Employer, and Sedgwick Claims Management Services, Carrier, Defendants-Appellants.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

December 18, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edwards and Ricci, P.A., by Roberta L. Edwards and Jonathan H. Winstead, Rocky Mount, for plaintiff-appellee.

Teague, Campbell, Dennis & Gorham, L.L.P., by Robert C. Kerner, Jr., Raleigh, for defendants-appellants.


JACKSON, Judge.

Edgecombe County Home Health Care and Sedgwick Claims Management Services ("defendants") appeal the 5 February 2007 opinion and award of the Full Commission of the North Carolina Industrial Commission in favor of Karyn Winders ("plaintiff"). For the reasons stated below, we reverse.

Plaintiff was working as a home health care nurse on 29 June 1998 when she injured her back attempting to catch her three hundred pound patient who was falling...

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