Clayton v. Mini Data Forms, Inc.

GEER, Judge.

Plaintiff Arnold Clayton appeals from an opinion and award of the Full Commission. Plaintiff contends that the Commission was not authorized to offset his workers’ compensation award by the amount of wages already paid to him by defendants while he was working in a position that the Commission later determined to be unsuitable. Although such an offset may be authorized by Moretz v. Richards & Assocs., Inc., 316 N.C. 539, 342 S.E.2d 844 (1986), because the Commission failed to make the necessary findings as to the nature of defendants’ payments under Rice v. City of Winston-Salem,…