High Court Hears Argument on Compensability of Office Worker's Fall

South Carolina's Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral argument in a dispute about whether a social services worker who was injured when she tripped while walking down a carpeted hallway at her office had suffered a compensable injury. The case was Nicholson v. South Carolina Department of Social Services, No. 2014-000329. A divided South Carolina Court of Appeals in 2013 ruled that Carolyn Nicholson was in the course of her employment at the time she fell, but that her injuries from the fall did not arise from her employment. Nicholson had worked for the South Carolina Department of...