A North Carolina court has affirmed a state agency’s decision denying an employee’s workers’ compensation claim for injuries sustained at her employer’s annual holiday party.
It concluded that the injury had not arisen out of or in the course of her employment.
Related: Workers comp trends to keep an eye on in 2017
|The Case
Melissa Lennon worked as a deputy clerk of court in the accounting division of the Harnett County clerk of court’s office in Hartnett County, North Carolina.
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