BAKER v. CITY OF SANFORD

No. COA94-1455.

463 S.E.2d 559 (1995)

William A. BAKER, Employee/Plaintiff, v. CITY OF SANFORD, Employer; Self-Insured (Hewitt, Coleman & Associated, Agent), Defendant.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

November 21, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Van Camp, West, Hayes & Meacham, P.A. by Stanley W. West, Carthage, for plaintiff appellant.

Maupin, Taylor, Ellis & Adams, P.A. by Jack S. Holmes and Julie A. Alagna, Raleigh, for defendant appellee City of Sanford.


ARNOLD, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff's first three arguments on appeal address the issue of causation, assigning as error the Commission's finding of fact that plaintiff's disability was not the direct and natural result of his work-related depression, and its conclusions of law that (1) his depression arose from an intervening event and (2) his occupational disease was not disabling.

In determining complex causation in workers' compensation cases, "the Commission...

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