Roberts v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

BRYANT, Judge.

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. and American Home Assurance Company (defendants) appeal from an Opinion and Award of the North Carolina Industrial Commission (Full Commission) awarding Edna Jo Roberts (plaintiff) medical compensation and total disability compensation from 9 July 2000 through 12 September 2000. For the reasons below we reverse and vacate the Commission’s Opinion and Award.

Facts

Plaintiff is a high school graduate and on 8 July 2000 was working for defendant’s Sam’s Club store in Asheville, North Carolina. Plaintiff had recently become qualified to drive a school bus and had…