Young v. Hickory Business Furniture

LAKE, Justice.

This case arises from proceedings before the North Carolina Industrial Commission (the Commission) and raises the issue of whether the Commission’s findings of fact were supported by competent evidence establishing causation between an employment-related injury and the development of fibromyalgia.

On 3 March 1992, while working for employer-defendant (Hickory Business Furniture), employee-plaintiff (Young) reached across some chairs to lift another chair and felt a pop in her back and the onset of pain. The accident resulted in plaintiff’s suffering a lumbo-sacral strain. Prior…