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Workers' Compensation
- Key Risk + Company Doctor + Light Duty Job = Disaster
- Workers' Comp Adjusters are using private investigators more and more
- What do you really want in your workers' comp claim?
- The Problem with Company Doctors, Part I
- Kid's Chance Golf Tournament
Personal Injury
- The McDonald's Coffee Burn Lawsuit
- Ensign Amendment Fails --- Good News for Malpractice Victims
- City of Charlotte to Settle Wrongful Death Lawsuit for Driver Killed By Falling Tree
- Seat Belts = Safety
- Personal Injury Legal Team Welcomes Laurie Stegall
Social Security Disability
- Update on the SSA Using Electronic Medical Records
- Apply for SSD On Your Computer
- Disability Claims Processing Data
- GAO Follows SSA's Efforts to End Hearings Delays
- Fixing a Broken Mental Health System
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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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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
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Social Security Disability
Disability Claims Processing Data
As an update to my recent post, the national average for processing a SSD claim is 494 days. That's nearly a year and five months. The Greensboro office operates at 541 days (almost 50 days longer), while Charlotte beats the national average slightly at 490 days.
It is important to note that North Carolina has had a slight drop (just under 4%) in the number of claims processed this year compared to 2008, which makes us one of only two states where this happened. Compare NC to Ilinois where the number of cases has unbelievably doubled, due possibly to more baby boomers in the market and people who had not planned for the economic dilemma we are in.
According to the latest reports, the Social Security Administration has the goal to end the backlog in hearing level claims in all states by 2013. Additional Administrative Law Judges, funding and efficient staff and productivity could make this happen. As always, we will keep you updated.
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"10 Ways to Wreck Your
Workers Compensation Claim"
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"10 Things Your Insurance Adjuster Wont Tell You"
"Deny & Buy" - Confessions of Former Insurance Defense Attorneys
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Case Studies
Workers' Compensation
What Can Go Wrong with a Return to Light Duty Work.
How a Functional Capacities Evaluation Can Wreck a Claim.
An Example of a Workers' Comp Adjuster Manipulating the Recorded Statement.