All assets associated with the tag: worker's compensation
Workers' families and advocates gathered at the State Capitol this morning for a memorial ceremony. They were commemorating those who lost their lives on the job in the past year. According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 189 people died on the job in 2020.
If you're injured on the job, you likely qualify for workers' compensation. Learn what the filing process looks like, and why it pays to work with an attorney.
Abbey Slattery WRAL Digital Solutions
A police officer provides emotional testimony as the state legislature considers an expansion of workers compensation, but the bill's likely doomed.
Travis Fain, WRAL statehouse reporter
A spinal cord injury is one of the most severe injuries that an individual can suffer. For those injured in the workplace, it's important to know exactly what you're entitled to and how to advocate for your needs.
Abbey Slattery, WRAL Digital Solutions
As the Triangle continues to grow, the construction industry has seen a major spike in activity. The attorneys at Martin & Jones have noticed a corresponding increase in construction injury cases and weigh in on the issue.
Business groups are pushing back against a bill pitched to make it easier for employees to win workers comp claims during the pandemic.
We often relegate "injured on the job" situations to the construction or manual labor industries, but accidents can happen anywhere, anytime.
Latisha Catchatoorian, WRAL Digital Solutions
Attorneys Ben Whitley and Whitney Butcher talk about five traps that can prevent you from receiving your benefits after you are injured at work.
A construction welder in North Carolina was awarded $2.47 million in workers' compensation after a long and arduous process involving several mediations and post-mediation negotiations.
Natalie Yerger, freelance reporter
Just because your employer provides access to workers' compensation insurance, it doesn't mean the insurance company will pay out when you need it.
Lisa D'Aromando, freelance reporter
The deputy commissioner is tapped for a slot reserved for an employer representative, but without backing from employers.
The North Carolina Industrial Commission is joining the state's battle against opioid addiction, proposing rules to make it harder to get a prescription for pain-killers when filing a workers compensation claim.
Mandy Mitchell
Lawmakers confirmed Yolanda Stith, the wife of Gov. Pat McCrory's chief of staff, Thomas Stith, to serve on the state Industrial Commission.
Mark Binker
Gov. Pat McCrory signed an executive order Friday designed to curtail employers' ability to classify workers as contractors to get around paying certain state taxes.
Matthew Burns
Bills preempting local city laws and shifting more funding to charter schools were among those left undone as lawmakers prepared to end their session Wednesday morning.
Laura Leslie and Mark Binker
The Senate Rules Committee sent 13 bills on to the floor. Topics ranged from a measure that will help rural hospitals to a pilot program for drug needle cleanup programs.
The House on Wednesday gave preliminary approval to a measure that would crack down on employers that classify workers as independent contractors to avoid paying certain taxes.
House lawmakers are weighing competing arguments about how best to reform the state's laws governing how employers classify and pay taxes for workers.
Laura Leslie
State senators on Wednesday unanimously approved a proposal to crack down on employers who misclassify employees as independent contractors to avoid employment costs.
Gov. Pat McCrory said that 40 percent of the money North Carolina spends on workers compensation claims for state employees is related to fraud and abuse. Lawyers, union officials and academics question that figure.
Mark Binker and Cullen Browder
During his 2015 State of the State address, Gov. Pat McCrory claimed 40 percent of all workers compensation claims for state employees were related to fraud and abuse.