Court Opinion

ID: 9585087
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 22:55:51.01311+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:27:31.566294
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*699Judge Eagles
concurring.
I am compelled to concur based on the language of the statute, G.S. 97-58(b), and the failure of the statute to describe more clearly what constitutes notice to a potential claimant from a competent medical authority that he has a compensable related disease. As presently phrased, the statute is satisfied by the fact that claimant was told by Dr. Steelman that he had a breathing problem which he would have “all his life” and that if he went back into the card room of the mill to work it would “kill” him. Relief from the statute’s employee notice provisions is available, if at all, only through the legislative process.