Jordan v. J.C. Penney Co.

Terry Crabtree, Judge.

Appellant Mary Jordan appeals from the decision of the Workers’ Compensation Commission, which adopted the decision of the Administrative Law Judge, denying her claim for benefits. We reverse.

Appellant is a sixty-one-year-old high-school graduate who worked as a sales clerk for J.C. Penney for seventeen years. She seeks benefits for an injury that occurred on September 14, 1993, based on her testimony that as she reached into a jewelry case while helping a customer, she felt an immediate severe pain in her back. She became faint and ill and was carried to her home where…