Johnson v. Southern Industrial Constructors, Inc.

JOHN, Judge.

Unnamed parties Siemens Energy & Automation, Inc. (Siemens) and Zurich-American Insurance Company, Siemens’s insurance carrier (hereinafter appellants), contest the trial court’s assumption of jurisdiction pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 97-l'0.2(j) over a workers’ compensation lien attached to a judgment secured by plaintiff Charles Lynwood Johnson against a third party. We vacate the trial court’s order and remand for further proceedings.

Pertinent facts and procedural history are as follows: plaintiff, an employee of Siemens, was injured in the course of his employment when struck by a…