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• Personal Injury
• Social Security Disability

Firm News

• Workers Compensation: North Carolina Industrial Commission shows we beat both AIG and Zurich in proving that this truck driver for a brick company had two separate accidents which both injured his knee, ultimately disabling him....
• 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 sanctions against the insurance company for failing to accept a claim when our client, an insulation installer, was in an auto accident....
• Workers' Compensation: North Carolina Industrial Commission: The Vocational Rehabilitation Professional, from Page Rehabilitation, had a "strained interpretation of suitable employment and the duration of her proposed job search raises serious questions as to whether her objective was to benefit plaintiff or defendants."...
• 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....
• 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....
• North Carolina Industrial Commission: OTP Lawyers stepped in to save an injured plumber whose original lawyer couldn't get the job done against Key Risk....
• North Carolina Industrial Commission: Facing down the Argonaut workers' compensation adjuster in a disputed carpal tunnel case...
• North Carolina Industrial Commission: In this case with Kemper Insurance company the NCIC found that the employer, Cintas, "schemed" to fire plaintiff while she was on light duty....

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Workers' Compensation

• Workers' Comp Tips
• My Employer Says They Don't Have Workers Comp Insurance
• Ten Ways to Wreck Your Workers' Compensation Claim, Online Edition
• What is the Present Value of Money and Why Should I Care?
• Five Ways Doctors Can Hurt Your Case

Personal Injury

• How Uninsured Motorist Insurance protects you in a personal injury claim.

Social Security Disability

• Five Social Security Disability Tips
• What on Earth is a Workers' Compensation Offset?
• What People Applying For Disability Need To Know

General

• The Ten Worst Insurance Companies

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"From the initial interview until the check came I was treated like family. I have and will continue to recommend you to friends and family."

"I was impressed with your firm from the beginning... Although I'm sure you are totally busy with cases I always felt as though mine were the only one you were handling. All my calls were promptly returned and I really appreciate that."

"You were right up front about what the workers' compensation adjuster would try to do. I did not know anything about workers' compensation laws. I think your firm did an amazing job for me and my family."

"You were abale to spot the problems immediately and fix them."

"There's no way I could have gotten the same results without your help."

"Your office a very, very profesional office. You have always treated me with great respect, honesty, and integrity."

"You absolutely are the experts in Workers' Compensation law. You never made me feel foolish."

"You know every aspect of workers' comp and used that to my benefit."

"You were very knowledgeable and treated me with utmost respect."

"I never had another worry after hiring you."

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Here's A Trap Workers' Comp Adjuster Have Been Setting Lately

Here's a warning about a trap adjusters have been laying lately. This one could save you a lot of pain,both emotionally and financially.

You know that adjusters want to send you to their favorite doctors. And you know that once an adjuster starts paying you they must continue unless you either return to work or they seek, AND GET, permission from the Industrial Commission to cut off your checks.

Here's how adjusters are trying to get around this rule.

Technically, an adjuster can only pick the doctor if she's formally accepted your claim. But 99% of injured workers don't know this and so the adjuster can get away with just telling you where you have to go.

The trick is that the adjuster may not formally accept or deny your case right away, even if she's paying you. Again, 99% of injured workers are happy if they're getting their weekly checks.

By not formally accepting your case the adjuster can wait around to see if you're case is going to be a big one or not. If it looks like you may need surgery or not be able to return to work she can deny your claim and cut off your checks without asking the Industrial Commission first.

Does this happen often? Sadly, it does. At any given time our firm is handling a dozen or more cases where this exact scheme was played out by an adjuster.

{!firstname_fix}, here's what you need to do to protect yourself. Don't be satisfied with getting a weekly check or being sent to the doctor. You need to insist on getting a NCIC Form 60 or Form 63 from the adjuster.

If you're unfamiliar with what those look like we'll send you copies. Don't let the adjuster get by with telling you a Form 60 is unnecessary if you haven't come out of work yet. The regulations for this were changed a year ago, but some adjusters still use it as
an excuse.