Rose v. City of Rocky Mount

MARTIN, Chief Judge.

The City of Rocky Mount (“employer”) and Compensation Claims Solutions (“administrator”) (collectively “defendants”) appeal an opinion and award by the North Carolina Industrial Commission (“Commission”) awarding benefits to Sandra Kay Rose (“plaintiff- employee”), a sworn officer of the City of Rocky Mount’s police department.

The underlying events relating to this case took place on 10 November 2003. Evidence in the record tended to show that plaintiff-employee had worked in her present position as a police officer since June 1987, attaining the rank of corporal. At lunch…