Carter v. Becton-Dickinson

Severs, Judge.

Bonnie L. Carter appeals the affirmance by a Workers’ Compensation Court review panel of the trial judge’s dismissal of her claim for workers’ compensation benefits associated with a broken left hip. The trial judge dismissed Carter’s petition, finding that her employment did not create a risk or contribute to a risk which aggravated a hip injury she had already suffered before the work incident at issue here. Consequently, the trial judge found that Carter had failed to show that her injury arose out of and in the course of her employment.

BACKGROUND

Carter began working for…