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What is the Full Commission?

The Full Commission acts as the first level of an appeal from a deputy commissioner’s opinion and award. The Full Commission is comprised of six Commissioners. Unlike deputy commissioners, who must be lawyers, the commissioners have often not been lawyers. The governor appoints members of the Full Commission for a specific term of service. Gov. […]

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Is there anything the Industrial Commission will do to speed up my medical treatment?

There are some limits to it but the Industrial Commission has a process for an expedited medical hearing. We’re surprised that more lawyers do not take advantage of this. A traditional hearing can easily take a year before there is a decision in the case – when measured from the request for a hearing to […]

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What is the North Carolina Industrial Commission?

The Industrial Commission (informally called the NCIC, or sometimes super informally called just the IC) is the government agency which is in charge of handling all workers’ compensation claims. You may not realize this but workers’ compensation claims do NOT go to court. You will never see a judge or a jury in a workers’ […]

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If I injure myself again what happens?

You’ve got a whole new claim. There are not really pre-existing condition exclusions in the Workers’ Compensation Act. The closest thing is if you lie your way into a new job by denying that you have anything physically wrong with you. If you promptly reinjure yourself the claim could be denied. Hopefully you’ll never have […]

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Are Company Doctors Accurately Reporting Workplace Injuries?

In handling workers’ comp cases, we have found that company doctors may downplay the severity of accidents that occur at work. Injured workers come to attorneys complaining of problems that continue to hurt weeks after the incident. Or worse, they are concerned because they received an icepack and a band-aid from the company doctor when […]

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Am I going to be able to get another job when this is all over?

The overwhelming majority or our clients return to work. Fortunately, a fairly small number are so severely injured that they’re never able to return to work. It is fairly unlikely that your company is going to blackball you after you’re gone. Most companies understand the legal risk they take in doing that and many have […]

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