Tinsley v. City of Charlotte

McCullough, Judge.

• Attorney Curtis Osborne (“appellant”) appeals from the Opinion and Award filed by the North Carolina Industrial Commission (the “Commission”) on 22 October 2012 that limited his recovery of attorneys’ *745fees to one-third of the settlement in the third-party case. For the following reasons, we affirm.

I. Background

This appeal arises out of appellant’s representation of Michael K. Tinsley (“plaintiff’) in worker’s compensation and third-party cases. The cases stem from a 1 December 2007 work-related automobile accident in which plaintiff was injured.

In the workers’ compensation…