Propst v. North Carolina Department of Health & Human Services

STROUD, Judge.

Gretchen Propst (“plaintiff’) appeals from an order entered 18 May 2012 by the Full Commission granting summary judgment in favor of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (“defendant”). We affirm.

I. Background

Plaintiff filed a claim for damages under the Tort Claims Act on 9 September 2008. In that claim, she alleged that Dr. Bruce Flitt, the Gaston County Medical Examiner, negligently failed to perform his duties as medical examiner on 11 September 2005 when he signed a Medical Examiner’s Report (“ME Report”) that stated he had examined the body of…