DocketNumber: I.C. NO. TA-17563.
Judges: <center> DECISION AND ORDER for the Full Commission by DANNY LEE McDONALD, Commissioner, N.C. Industrial Commission.</center>
Filed Date: 8/30/2007
Status: Precedential
Modified Date: 7/6/2016
Plaintiff's motion to admit evidence in the form of a document entitled "Indigent Inmate Radio" is hereby GRANTED, and such evidence is made part of the record herein.
2. In the process of plaintiff's transfer to segregation, Officer Parker did not properly secure plaintiff's locker. As a result, some items in plaintiff's locker were stolen by other inmates and not recovered.
3. The items plaintiff alleges to have lost are listed in full on plaintiff's exhibit 1. Most of the items on the list are toiletries. Plaintiff did not prove the value of the lost items.
4. Plaintiff alleges that, as a result of negligence on the part of NCDOC staff, he sustained property loss.
5. Following this incident, an investigation was conducted. Staff negligence was acknowledged and plaintiff was given a new radio from the canteen and was also given $38.00, the value of a canteen radio. Plaintiff's testimony and the NCDOC Incident Report, marked as Defendant's exhibit 1, corroborate plaintiff's monetary reimbursement and the issuance of a replacement radio in connection with this incident.
2. Under the provisions of the Tort Claims Act, negligence is determined by the same rules applicable to private parties. Bolkir v.N.C. State Univ.,
3. In order to recover on a civil claim for negligence, a claimant must prove: (1) the existence of a duty to him; (2) a breach of that duty by the defendant (the named employees thereof in a tort claim); (3) injury sustained; and (4) that the injury sustained was a proximate result of the breach of duty. Pulley v. Rex Hospital,
4. Because plaintiff, through normal NCDOC procedures, received a new radio to replace the stolen one and $38.00, a reasonable sum to compensate him for the loss of the other items, plaintiff has not proven that he sustained an injury, which is an element necessary for his claim. Pulley v. Rex Hospital,
5. Plaintiff did not establish his right to relief under the Tort Claims Act. N.C. Gen. Stat. §
2. No costs are assessed at this time.
*Page 4This the 20th day of August, 2007.
S/________________________ DANNY LEE McDONALD COMMISSIONER
CONCURRING:
S/________________________ BUCK LATTIMORE CHAIRMAN
S/________________________ LAURA KRANIFELD MAVRETIC COMMISSIONER *Page 1