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holding that the exclusivity provisions of the Workers' Compensation Act did not bar a claim of IIED against the employer based on the allegation of sexual harassment
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No. 206PA89
Filed 1 March 1990
ON defendant's petition for discretionary review of the decision of the Court of Appeals, 93 N.C. App. 431, 378 S.E.2d 232 (1989), which found no error in the judgment of Morgan, J., at the 18 December 1987 Session of Superior Court, ROCKINGHAM County. Heard in the Supreme Court 12 February 1990.
Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy and Kennedy, by Harvey L. Kennedy, Harold L. Kennedy, III, and Annie Brown Kennedy, for plaintiff-appellee.
Smith Helms Mullis Moore, by McNeill Smith, Michael A. Gilles, and Julie C. Theall, for defendant-appellant.
Lonnie B. Williams, Immediate Past President; and Young, Moore, Henderson Alvis, P.A., by Walter E. Brock, Jr., and E. Knox Proctor, for amicus curiae, North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys.
Anne M. Fishburne for amicus curiae N.C. Equity.
Smith, Patterson, Follin, Curtis, James, Harkavy Lawrence, by Martha A. Greer and Heidi G. Chapman, for North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys; J. Wilson Parker, Wake Forest University School of Law, and Tharrington, Smith Hargrove, by Wade M. Smith and Burton Craige, for North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers, amici curiae.
Discretionary review improvidently allowed.