Employer Must Pay for Quadriplegic Worker's Rent, but no Van

By Sherri OkamotoLegal ReporterThe North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled last week that an employer had to pay for the full cost of renting and modifying handicapped-accessible housing for a quadriplegic worker who didn't have his own apartment prior to his injury, but said that the employer did not need to provide him with a specially-adapted van since he was an undocumented worker who had never possessed a driver's license or owned a motor vehicle.Even though Santos Tinajero didn't get the vehicle he had wanted, his case clarified that there is no "black letter rule" that a defen...