Chaffins v. Tar Heel Capital Corp.

McCullough, Judge.

Defendants Tar Heel Capital Corporation, the employer, and Companion Property & Casualty Co., the insurance carrier, appeal from the opinion and award of the Industrial Commission (the “Commission”) in favor of employee Sonya Chaffins (“plaintiff’). For the following reasons, we reverse.

I. Background

This workers’ compensation action stems from an admittedly compensable back injury suffered by plaintiff on 1 August 2002. Since that time, plaintiff has undergone eleven different surgeries on her spine and has required continuing treatment. Plaintiff initially received…