When an employee is hurt while providing a service to more than one employer, a common question is which employer should be responsible for paying workers’ compensation benefits to the injured employee. This issue usually arises when the injured employee is working through a staffing agency or temporary employment agency, […]
Category: Workers’ Compensation
Kids’ Chance Provides Scholarships for Children of Injured Workers
Kids’ Chance of NC offers scholarships for technical school and undergraduate college to children of injured workers. Executive Director Paul Seguin said scholarship applications are reviewed and awarded throughout the year based upon availability of funds. If your family is struggling to cover tuition costs or other school expenses because […]
Three Construction Workers Die in Downtown Raleigh Scaffolding Collapse
According to a news report on WRAL, OSHA records show that the company responsible for the scaffolding at the downtown Raleigh construction site where three construction workers were killed and another seriously injured Monday morning had previously been cited twice in the last ten years for violations related to scaffolding. […]
Miners With Black Lung Wrongly Denied Benefits Based on Controversial Doctor’s X-ray Review
The Department of Labor has recently instructed more than 1,100 coal miners to re-apply for black lung benefits indicating that the miners may have been wrongly denied. The medical review of x-rays for these miners by a doctor at The Johns Hopkins Hospital has been called into question. According to […]
Workers’ Comp: Cost of State Claims Is Due to Short-Sighted, Ineffective Risk Management Policies
Since the economic crisis of 2008, I have been predicting that North Carolina politicians would declare a ‘crisis’ over the cost of workers’ compensation claims for State employees, teachers, and school-bus drivers. (Currently, the State is responsible for the workplace injury claims of all these groups.) I have also predicted […]
Workers’ Comp: Democrats Object to Governor’s Industrial Commission Nominee
A story published today in the Raleigh News & Observer notes that Democratic lawmakers are objecting to Governor McCrory’s appointment of Charlton Allen as a Commissioner of the North Carolina Industrial Commission. The six Commissioners of the Industrial Commission, including Chairman Andrew Heath, govern the agency. Perhaps their most important […]
Workers’ Comp: Update on House Bill 1011 – Commissioners Likely To Be Purged
I am late with an update on House Bill 1011, which I originally blogged about here. As noted in the previous post, the Full Commission is the governing body of the Industrial Commission, setting policy and procedures and deciding cases appealed from the deputy commissioners’ decisions. House Bill 1011 clears […]
Workers’ Comp: Suing Uninsured Employers – Did the Court of Appeals Open the Door?
One of the most common questions my clients with workplace injuries ask me is whether they can sue their employer for negligence. This question is not surprising, and it doesn’t mean that my clients are litigious gold-diggers. The workers’ compensation system provides only a limited recovery to injured workers, without […]
Workers’ Comp: General Assembly Confirms New Chair of Industrial Commission
On Thursday, the General Assembly confirmed Andrew T. Heath as Governor McCrory’s first appointed Commissioner to the North Carolina Industrial Commission. We have learned today that Mr. Heath has begun his duties. Mr. Heath will assume the role of Chair of the Commission, essentially the head of the agency. He […]
Workers’ Comp: New Bill Filed to Clear Industrial Commission
The six Commissioners of the North Carolina Industrial Commission are the chief administrators and judges of the Commission. Guided by the Workers’ Compensation Act, the Commissioners manage the Commission and help set its policies and procedures. The Commissioners also act as the final judges of all contested cases that go […]
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