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Category: Workers’ Compensation

In North Carolina, employers who have three or more employees are legally obligated to have workers’ compensation insurance to cover those employees in case they are ever injured. Occasionally, larger companies will be self-insured. This is fine, as long as there is some form of workers’ compensation coverage for workplaces that employ more than two…Read More

The History of Workers’ Compensation The very first state to implement comprehensive workers’ compensation laws was Wisconsin in 1911. This was the natural result of years of reform efforts for workplaces in the United States and was largely based on laws that already existed in Europe. By 1948, 45 other states had implemented workers’ compensation…Read More

The fear of being fired or otherwise retaliated against in the workplace is a common concern among employees who are considering filing a workers’ compensation claim in North Carolina. Although it is illegal for your employer to fire you (or retaliate against you in any way) for this reason, that doesn’t mean that it never…Read More

An important goal of the North Carolina Workers’ Compensation system is to return workers to employment where possible after an on-the-job injury. Until that time, injured workers often undergo a series of treatments, which can involve more than one medical provider, along with physical or occupational therapists who work together to help workers to heal…Read More

Despite continuous discoveries and new advancements, the field of medicine is not an exact science. It is not particularly surprising that two physicians may offer differing opinions and treatments for the same condition, but their geographic region within the U.S. should not be a determining factor for these differences. Last June, the Workers’ Compensation Research…Read More