Family Dollar Stores, Inc. v. Edwards

Sam Bird, Judge.

Appellants Family Dollar Stores, Inc., and St. Paul Travelers Insurance appeal from a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Commission awarding benefits to appellee Barbara S. Edwards, who suffered a heart attack one day after she was robbed at gunpoint while working as a cashier at a Family Dollar Store. We affirm.

At a hearing before the administrative law judge, Edwards testified that she and Tara Hall were closing the Family Dollar Store in Wynne on March 26, 2004, when a man “came out from behind some clothes,” put a gun to her head, demanded money, and ordered her and…