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• Workers' Compensation
• Personal Injury
• Social Security Disability

Firm News

• When the injured worker returned to work he was immediately fired...
  
• Workers' Compensation: The IC ruled that the employer, who willingly paid the medical claim and workers comp for the employee's foot injury, must also pay for pain management because this injury aggravated the employee's pre-existing fibromyalgia and hypertension and was now considered a chronic condition. Although it is tough to win these claims we can usually do it if we the treating physician will agree that the pre-existing condition is worse now than it was and that this change is due to the worker's comp accident....
  
• Workers' Compensation: The Industrial Commission denied the employee's claim for temporary partial disability compensation. The Commission ruled that the reduction in wages that our client received was because of problems with the company's workload due to the economy. It was determined that he didn't receive less pay because of his injury or from the less-paying job within the company that he had to take because of the injury....
  
• Workers' Compensation: The NC Industrial Commission determined that the employer was required to pay our client's medical bills and also continue workers' compensation payments until our client could find a job with his limited physical capabilities. The employer was unable to find work for him at the company and he was fired, which was unacceptable, although it was explained by the employer as happening because of excessive absences....
  
• Workers' Compensation: The North Carolina Industrial Commission threatened to hold CNA in contempt of court because they refused to authorize the medical tests which would prove that the plaintiff was unable to do his job. This was a classic example of an adjuster getting an opinion from a reliable doctor and then refusing any other evaluation which could help the injured worker....
  
• Workers Compensation: The North Carolina Industrial Commission held that National Benefits Association had wrongfully denied this claim for more than a year...but only when the Industrial Commission finally heard all the evidence -- that the employer admitted that they knew the plaintiff was hurt, that they had sent him to a doctor but didn't follow his direction, and that there was no way our client could do his job with his severely-injured back....
  
• Workers' Compensation: North Carolina Industrial Commission says Liberty Mutual must provide yardcare and housecleaning to an injured brickmason....
  
• Workers' Compensation: North Carolina Industrial Commission rules that a restaurant dishwasher who slipped and fell, and was taken straight to an emergency room has proven that he was injured on the job....
  
• Workers' Compensation: North Carolina Industrial Commission finds that Diebold and Broadspire MUST pay weekly benefits even after they fired the injured worker from her "light duty" job....
  
• Workers' Compensation: North Carolina Industrial Commission rules against The Hartford Insurance Company and holds that a nurse who was still on her employer's property when she was hit by a car is within the course and scope of her employment and entitled to workers' compensation benefits....
  

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Library

Workers' Compensation

• Psssst! Who's that following you?
• NCIC Form 25T: Mileage Reimbursement form
• Form 28T: Notice of Termination of Compensation by Reason of Trial Return to Work
• Form 33R: Response to Request that Claim Be Assigned for Hearing
• 10 Things Your Insurance Adjuster Won't Tell You (download)

Personal Injury

• Police Report/ Accident Report Samples
• Auto Insurance Declaration Page
• Certificate of Employment
• What to Do in Case of an Auto Accident
• How Uninsured Motorist Insurance protects you in a personal injury claim.

Social Security Disability

• Healthcare Clinics in NC with free service
• Free Clinics in Forsyth County
• Form SSA 3381
• Form SSA 827
• Form SSA 561

General

• Common Legal Terms
• The Ten Worst Insurance Companies

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"Everyone on the team was really personable and professional."

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"The quick response and action by Justin Wraight when my case came to a critical point was impressive."

"I didn't have to deal with a bunch of legal jargon.  You explained it all to me so I could understand what was going on, and I appreciate that."

"Everybody was totally straight forward with me.  I didn't feel like I was just paperwork to them."

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Attorneys:

	Todd P. Oxner Oxner Thomas + Permar 1155 Revolution Mill Drive Studio 4 Greensboro, North Carolina 27405 Phone: (336) 274-4494 Email: toxner@otplaw.com

Todd Oxner is a founder and managing partner of Oxner Thomas + Permar, a North Carolina workers’ compensation firm.  Since 1994 Todd has been known statewide for his success in handling workers’ compensation claims.  He was in the first class of attorneys evaluated by the North Carolina State Bar for Board Certification as a Specialist in Workers’ Compensation. Additionally, he is an AV-rated attorney with Martindale-Hubble, the highest peer rating that an attorney can receive. A member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum (certifying his experience and success in obtaining awards of more than $1,000,000.00 for his clients) he feels a greater accomplishment is successfully representing hundreds of injured workers from the earliest stages of their claims through the Industrial Commission, the Court of Appeals, to the Supreme Court, and back. He has been named by NC Super Lawyers magazine as one of the top attorneys in the state and is a member of the North Carolina Advocates for Justice and also the Workers' Injury Law and Advocacy Group (Board of Directors).


Born in San Francisco, California, Todd attended Prairie Bible College in Three Hills, Alberta. He then served the U.S. Army and was stationed in Panama. Upon honorable discharge Todd studied at Tel Aviv University and graduated with honors from San Jose State University. Todd then went to the University of Iowa on scholarship to work on a Ph.D. in Religion. After doing fieldwork in India and Nepal to study how religion affects legal systems Todd earned a law degree with academic honors. While he still loves reading and studying South Asian culture, he's even happier practicing law. He's the proud father of  Claire and Owen Oxner.

 

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Workers' Compensation

• My Employer Says They Don't Have Workers Comp Insurance
• What is the Present Value of Money and Why Should I Care?