Beaver v. City of Salisbury

WALKER, Judge.

On 16 March 1987, plaintiff filed a claim for workers’ compensation benefits with the North Carolina Industrial Commission (Commission) seeking recovery from the defendant on the grounds that the illness from which her husband (the decedent) became disabled and died, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, is an occupational disease.

The deputy commissioner filed an opinion and award on 27 May 1997 denying plaintiff’s claim for workers’ compensation benefits. The Commission, with one member dissenting, reversed the decision of the deputy commissioner and awarded plaintiff full death benefits,…