Hill v. Faircloth Manufacturing Co.

i. nature of the case

In these consolidated cases, employees petitioned for worker’s compensation benefits for personal injuries they sustained in vehicular accidents. We granted leave to appeal in both cases to consider the narrow legal issue whether an employee may recover worker’s compensation benefits for injuries sustained in a vehicular accident where the employee’s diabetic seizure caused the accident.

In Hill, plaintiff’s decedent, Jack Hill, 1 was driving his employer’s delivery truck when he suffered a diabetic seizure, causing a collision with another truck. The magistrate did not…