Tag search result for: N.C. Industrial Commission

On the Budget: Doug Berger

ryanteaguebeckwith — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:41:16 -0500

Sen. Doug Berger
Youngsville Democrat
Third Term

DHHS settles harassment lawsuit

ryanteaguebeckwith — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:17:01 -0500

The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services has agreed to pay an Oxford woman $320,000 to settle a sexual harassment case involving a former supervisor at John Umstead Hospital with a prior history of mistreating female workers, according to the woman's lawyer.

Cultural deputy gets job from Easley

bniolet — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:35:29 -0500

On his last day at work, Gov. Mike Easley gave the acting head of the Department of Cultural Resources a new job.

Easley appointed Staci Meyer to the N.C. Industrial Commission. Meyer was the chief deputy and general counsel to the department who ran things when Secretary Libba Evans went on extended, unpaid leave.

Industrial Comm. asked to look at case

ryanteaguebeckwith — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:29:17 -0400

The state Industrial Commission is being asked to take up the case of a Cumberland County man seeking compensation after being severely beaten by a state trooper 23 years ago.

The N.C. Department of Crime Control and Public Safety has appealed a decision by Wanda Taylor, a deputy Industrial Commissioner, that Richard Wayne Barfield be entitled to a hearing on damages of up to $100,000. The department includes the State Highway Patrol, Dan Kane reports.

Beaten man entitled to seek damages

bniolet — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:41:11 -0400

A state Industrial Commission official has found that a Cumberland County man severely beaten by a state trooper 23 years ago is entitled to seek damages of up to $100,000.

Richard Wayne Barfield, 50, suffered major head injuries from the beating by Trooper Geary Blackwood, 56, outside a convenience store in Fayetteville in 1985, Dan Kane reports. Surgeons had to remove a piece of his skull and patch his head together with cranial plaster and a plate.

Beating case continues

bkrueger — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:15:41 -0400

Richard Wayne Barfield's 23-year-long battle for compensation from the state after he was badly beaten by a state trooper during a traffic stop will go on for at least another month.

Barfield's attorney, J. Michael Gay of Hillsborough, said today that Deputy Commissioner Wanda Taylor of the N.C. Industrial Commission heard preliminary arguments in the case this morning, then gave Gay and the state Attorney General's office 30 days to submit legal briefs, reports Dan Kane.

Young to chair Industrial Commission

ryanteaguebeckwith — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:19:21 -0400

Pamela Thorpe Young will chair the N.C. Industrial Commission.

Gov. Mike Easley named the Cary attorney head of the commission, which oversees workers' compensation claims, starting Oct. 1. The seven commissioners serve six-year terms.