PATE v. COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON

Appellate Case No. 2019-001064. Opinion No. 5925.

437 S.C. 139 (2022)

876 S.E.2d 877

Patricia PATE, Employee/Claimant, Appellant, v. COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON, Employer, and State Accident Fund, Carrier, Respondents.

Court of Appeals of South Carolina.

Filed July 20, 2022.

Rehearing Denied August 12, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen Benjamin Samuels , of Samuels Reynolds Law Firm LLC, of Columbia and Max Capper Sparwasser , of Max Sparwasser Law Firm, LLC, of Mount Pleasant, both for Appellant.

Margaret Mary Urbanic , of Clawson & Staubes, LLC and Mikell Holbrook Wyman , of Wyman Law Firm, LLC, both of Charleston; Page Hilton , of South Carolina Legislative Counsel, of Wedgefield; and Kirsten Leslie Barr , of Trask & Howell, LLC, of Mount Pleasant, all for Respondents.


This is an appeal from the Workers' Compensation Commission. The case is about whether the commission properly limited Patricia Pate to an award for a back disability and whether the commission erred when it determined she has lost a lesser degree of the use of her back than she claimed.

There is ample evidence Pate's back injury...

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