Commission Applies Wrong Legal Standard to Deny Claim for Traumatic Brain Injury

The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled that the Industrial Commission applied the wrong legal standard in denying a worker’s traumatic brain injury claim, but it upheld the commission’s imposition of discovery sanctions against the employer. Home Fix Custom Remodeling hired Dennis Mahone Jr. as a sales representative in July 2018. On his second sales call, Mahone climbed into the attic of a potential customer to take measurements for an insulation estimate, and the floor beneath him collapsed. He fell a distance of 20 feet, landing in the staircase area of the lower ...