Quadriplegic Worker Wins Benefits for Heat Stroke

An employer must pay medical benefits of a worker who became a quadriplegic from a work injury and later suffered a heat stroke because he could not leave his caregiver’s overheated car, an appellate court decided. Case: Tims v. J.D. Kitts Construction, No. 4840, 06-15-2011, published. Facts: Phillip Tims fell from a 12-foot scaffold and suffered a spinal cord injury, resulting in quadriplegia. J.D. Kitts Construction and its carrier South Carolina Home Builders Self-Insured Fund began paying Tims medical and indemnity benefits in 2006. Tims stayed at Greenville Memorial Hospit...