Baechel v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.

Quillin, Presiding Judge.

Appellant, Sears, Roebuck & Company (“Sears”), appeals from the trial court’s verdict awarding appellee JoAnn Baechel the right to participate in the Workers’ Compensation Fund for her husband’s death resulting from an occupational disease. We affirm.

Raymond Baechel was employed by Sears from 1966 until 1988. During the period between 1967 and 1984, Baechel worked at Sears’s Chapel Hill store in the floor covering department as a salesperson, where he sold floor tile and linoleum, some of which contained asbestos. In 1984, Baechel was transferred to the plumbing…