N.C. Claimant Loses Additional Home Care Request

A claimant who suffered serious groin injury failed to prove that the Workers' Compensation Commission should have granted him additional in-home care, according to an appellate court ruling.The North Carolina Court of Appeal affirmed a previous ruling in Shulenberger v. HBD Industries, Inc., No. COA07-470, 2/19/08. Claimant Mark Shulenberger was injured in 2001, when he suffered a severe work-related injury affecting his groin and pelvis. His employer immediately agreed the injury was compensable, and paid him benefits until the two disagreed on additional care benefits in 2005, when Shul...