Buckner v. City of Asheville

GREENE, Judge.

City of Asheville (the employer) timely appeals from an order of the Industrial Commission (the Commission) directing that $170,000 received from a settlement with Wayne Fortune Hensley (the tort-feasor) be distributed to Billy Dean Buckner (the employee).

The material facts underlying this appeal are that the employee, while working within the course and scope of his employment as a plumbing inspector for the employer, was injured in an automobile collision with the tortfeasor. The employee sustained substantial injuries as a consequence of the collision. On 24 April 1989, the…