(DOWNLOAD) "Booker-Douglas v. J & S Truck Service" by North Carolina Court of Appeals " eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Booker-Douglas v. J & S Truck Service
- Author : North Carolina Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 20, 2006
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 65 KB
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Published opinion Cynthia Booker-Douglas appeals from an opinion and award of the North Carolina Industrial Commission denying her claim for death benefits following the death of her husband. We affirm the challenged opinion and award. Facts On 19 September 1985, decedent Leroy Douglas, Jr., was employed as a truck driver for defendant J & S Truck Service. On that particular date, Douglas was assigned to a long distance drivewith at least one other driver. While Douglas was asleep in the passenger seat of the truck, the other driver lost control of the vehicle. The ensuing accident caused irreparable injury to Douglas' spinal cord, and rendered him quadriplegic. From the date of Douglas' accident through 6 October 1994, he received temporary total disability benefits. He thereafter received permanent total disability benefits until his death. Douglas died on 6 April 2001 of sudden cardiac death, and the autopsy revealed that he had hypertrophic heart disease, or an ""enlarged heart.""