Richardson v. Maxim Healthcare/Allegis Group

HUDSON, Justice.

This workers’ compensation case concerns two issues: 1) sufficiency of notice to the employer of an injury by accident, and 2) whether competent evidence supported the Industrial Commission’s findings about the need to replace plaintiff’s left breast implant. We conclude that in enacting N.C.G.S. § 97-22, the General Assembly did not intend to require an injured worker to give written notice when the employer has actual notice of her on-the-job injury, as the employer had here. Further, we find the evidence of the need to replace the left implant to be insufficient. As…