Bus driver still battling to get workers' comp 3 years after deadly Durham explosion

“That shockwave went through my bus, went through me, went through my head, and that’s why I have a brain injury, and they’re denying all that,” Meyers said. “It’s like it never happened.”

Meyers said he hasn’t been able to get the medical therapies he needs. He said his insurance company, PMA Insurance Group, is paying for only some of his medical care, but not all of it.

“I am not the same person that I used to be,” Meyers said. “My day is full of irritations, and I fight my symptoms all day.”

Meyers’ symptoms include headaches, fatigue and disruptive sleep.

WRAL News reached out to PMA via phone, email and filling out a contact form on its website but did not hear back.

Meyers cannot get the additional treatments since he can’t afford the out-of-pocket costs.

“I am overwhelmed with continuing the process, and not getting the help that I need,” Meyers said.

Raleigh-based attorney Michael Bertics represents Meyers, and said workers’ compensation is not supposed to be a battle.

“You could see the glass shatter and fly into his head,” Bertics said of video showing the explosion.

Bertics and Meyers have been in court multiple times as part of the ongoing legal fight.

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Meyers said he’s built up thousands of dollars owed to several doctors.

Also, Meyers said PMA is not approving additional treatments his doctors are recommending.

“The stress of them denying therapies by my approved doctors so that I can get better, has forced me into this vortex of pain that I just keep going around and around and around, and I can’t get out of it,” Meyers said.

Meyers asked for people to pray for him.

“Pray that justice is done here,” he said.