Legal Opinion
Fox v. Newberry County Memorial Hospital
Court of Appeals of South Carolina
Decided October 24, 1994No. 2245PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Howard, Acting Judge:
J. Carlene Fox (Claimant) appeals the circuit court’s reversal of an award of worker’s compensation under the Occupational Disease Act. We reverse.
The claimant filed a claim with the Worker’s Compensation Commission, alleging she contracted a disease known as herpetic whitlow during her employment as a nurse at the New-berry Memorial County Hospital. The employer/carrier de nied compensation, asserting the condition was not work-related.
The claimant started work as a nurse in April of 1986. Prior to this time, she had no incidence of herpes. In July of 1986 she had an…
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