HASSELL v. ONSLOW COUNTY BD. OF EDUC.

No. 172A07.

661 S.E.2d 709 (2008)

Barbara Katrina HASSELL, Employee v. ONSLOW COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, Employer, Self-Insured (Key Risk Management Services, Inc.), Third-Party Administrator.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

June 12, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph T. Bryant, Jr., P.A., by Ralph T. Bryant, Jr., Greenville, for plaintiff-appellant.1

Roy Cooper, Attorney General, by John F. Maddrey, Assistant Solicitor General, for defendant-appellee Onslow County Board of Education.

George W. Lennon, Raleigh, for the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers, amicus curiae.


HUDSON, Justice.

Plaintiff employee challenges the Industrial Commission's ("Commission's") determination that she is not entitled to workers' compensation benefits because her "generalized anxiety disorder" ("GAD") is not an occupational disease pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 97-53(13). Guided by the well-established standard of appellate review, we hold that the Commission properly concluded that plaintiff's condition is not an occupational disease because she failed...

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