Fore v. Griffco

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA

In The Supreme Court Patricia Fore, Employee, Petitioner, v.

Griffco of Wampee, Inc., Employer, and Chartis Claims, Inc., Carrier, Respondents.

Appellate Case No. 2014-002039

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS

Appeal from The Workers' Compensation Commission

Opinion No. 27588

Heard October 20, 2015 – Filed November 12, 2015

CERTIORARI DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

Stephen B. Samuels, of Samuels Law Firm, LLC, and Peter P. Leventis, IV, of McKay Cauthen Settana & Stubley, PA, both of Columbia, for Petitioner.

James H. Lichty, of Columbia, and Helen F. Hiser, of Mt. Pleasant, both of McAngus Goudelock & Courie, LLC, for Respondents.

PER CURIAM: We granted certiorari to review the court of appeals' opinion in Fore v. Griffco of Wampee, Inc., 409 S.C. 360, 762 S.E.2d 37 (Ct. App. 2014). We now dismiss the writ of certiorari as improvidently granted.1

DISMISSED AS IMPROVIDENTLY GRANTED

TOAL, C.J., PLEICONES, BEATTY, KITTREDGE and HEARN, JJ., concur.

1 Accordingly, pursuant to the court of appeals' opinion, this matter is remanded to the Workers' Compensation Commission for a redetermination of Patricia Fore's benefits with express direction to consider Tony Owens' testimony and for Garry Smith's letter to be removed from Fore's public file.