Posts tagged workers' compensation

• Recent North Carolina Industrial Commission Decision Clarifies Specific Traumatic Incident Under Workers' Compensation Laws

  Robin Martinek | September 15, 2008 10:05 AM | 1 CommentFayetteville, NC Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  In a recent decision by the Full Commission, the Commission recognized that an employee suffered a specific traumatic incident resulting in injury to her back despite the fact that the pain did not...

• Injured employee claims he was fired because he filed a workers' compensation claim.

  Brent Adams | March 08, 2008 10:37 AM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  A man from Fayette County, West Virginia has filed suit against a company in Kanawha County, West Virginia claiming that during his employment there, the company fired him in retaliation for his filing a workers' compensation claim. He also claims that his employer violated the West Virginia Human Rights Act.The suit was filed against Mountaineer Grading Company and Mickey Farmer on January 29...

• Terminally Ill Social Security Disability Claimants Will Receive Benefits Faster With Proposed Legislation

  Brent Adams | January 09, 2008 11:43 PM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  Social security disability law now requires all claimants to wait 5 months after their disability to began collecting disability benefits.A bill proposed by U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D., Ohio) would remove the 5 month waiting period for terminally ill claimants.The purpose of the 5 month waiting period, a standard back-to-work benchmark was meant to avoid paying benefits to those who don't have...

• Stress Victim's Family Collects Workers' Compensation For Her Death

  Brent Adams | August 11, 2008 10:56 PM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  The North Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled that stress can be an occupational disease which will support a workers’ compensation claim. Family of dead workers collects full workers' compensation benefits.

• Pre-Employment Injuries May Come Back to Haunt Work Injury Victims

  Robin Martinek | August 15, 2008 4:40 PM | 1 CommentFayetteville, NC Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  In a recent case before the North Carolina Court of Appeals, a Judge Jackson and Judge Hunter found that an employee's undisclosed medical condition increased his risk of a back injury combined with...

• Should you Resign if you are not Able to Work?

  Brent Adams | July 26, 2007 8:00 AM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  Many of our workers' compensation clients are hurt so severally that they are unable to return to their former jobs. An issue often arises as to whether the injured employee should resign from his or her job or wait to be fired.The answer almost always is that the employee should not resign.An employer is justified in terminating an employee who is no longer able to work. However, if an employee...

• Is Workers Compensation worth saving?

  Michael Lewis | March 21, 2011 10:16 PM | 0 CommentsWinston-Salem, NC Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  In February, the North Carolina General Assembly moved closer to legislation that would significantly curb the amount of recovery that workers who are injured on the job can get through the North...

• Pork Processing Plant Workers Contract Illness After Inhaling Pig Brain Particles

  Sheila Chavis | February 08, 2008 4:56 PM | 0 CommentsRaleigh, NC Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  A cluster of workers at a pork processing plant in Minnesota have contracted an illness that has been connected with the workers' exposure to particles of pig brains. The workers were found to be exposed by inhaling the bits of pig brain during a process where the brains are blown out of the skull of the pig using compressed air. The brains are harvested packaged and sold primarily to Japan...

• Issue of whether an injury is covered by workers compensation law can be complex

  Brent Adams | January 17, 2008 10:25 PM | 0 CommentsRaleigh, NC Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  Employees are entitled to benefits from workers' compensation whenever they receive a personal injury "arising out of and in the course of employment. For example, a machinist received an injury to his eye from flying glass from a cola bottle while on his lunch break that caused blindness in that eye. As he was placing the bottle in the cooler, it exploded. He would be entitled to receive...

• Insurance Agency Must Pay $5.8 Million for Failure to Obtain Workers Compensation Insurance

  Brent Adams | October 12, 2007 10:21 AM | 0 CommentsFayetteville, NC Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  A large insurance agency has been ordered to pay $5.8 Million to a small business because it failed to obtain workers compensation insurance for that business. The agency, Hilb, Rogal and Hamilton Insurance Services, also failed to tell the company that it was not covered by workers compensation insurance. An employee of the small company was burned while at work and filed a workers...