A North Carolina court has affirmed a state agency’s decisiondenying an employee’s workers’ compensation claim for injuries sustained at her employer’s annualholiday party.

It concluded that the injury had not arisen out of or in thecourse of her employment.

The Case

Melissa Lennon worked as a deputy clerk of court in theaccounting division of the Harnett County clerk of court’s officein Hartnett County, North Carolina.

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