Thornton v. F.J. Cherry Hospital

TYSON, Judge.

Eric Thornton (“plaintiff’) appeals from the opinion and award entered by the Full Commission of the North Carolina Industrial Commission (“the Commission”) denying his claim under the Tort Claims Act. We affirm.

I. Background

On 16 May 2000, plaintiff was involuntarily committed to F.J. Cherry Hospital (“Hospital”) after he inflicted multiple lacerations upon himself with a box cutter. Plaintiffs treatment records indicate he cut himself approximately twenty times about the head, chest, and legs in order to obtain a narcotic painkiller. That day, plaintiff also attempted to…