Court: City doesn't owe worker hurt while smoking on break
RALEIGH— A North Carolina city employee isn’t owed workers’ compensation for an injury he suffered while smoking during a lunch break, the state appeals court ruled Tuesday. A three-judge panel of the North Carolina Court of Appeals said Larry Brooks’ fall in 2015 was due to underlying medical conditions combined with his decision to smoke, not actions by his employer.Brooks, who supervised a utility crew for Winston-Salem, was taking his lunch break at a gas […]
