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I’m injured. Why aren’t I getting benefits?

June 10, 2014

In North Carolina you need to prove two things to win a workers’ compensation claim. First, that you were injured. Second, that the injury occurred while working as a result of either an accident or an occupational disease. So if you’re just doing your normal work and your knee gives way or your shoulder pops […]

Workers’ Comp Definitions- What is occupational disease?

May 10, 2014

Workers' Compensation

An occupational disease is a condition, which disables you due to exposure to a hazard to which the general public is not equally exposed. That’s confusing, isn’t it? In the old days it was coal miners getting black lung, or workers in a cotton mill breathing in cotton fibers. Nowadays the most common occupational diseases […]

Workers Comp definitions- What is an accident?

May 2, 2014

Workers' Compensation

An “accident” is legally defined as an “interruption of the normal work routine.” Most commonly this is a slip, trip, or fall or something like that. However an interruption of the normal work routine includes moving an unusual object, or a heavier than normal object, or moving it at a faster pace than normal, or […]

O+P Expands Workers’ Comp Division to Virginia

May 1, 2014

Workers' Compensation

Oxner + Permar attorney Casey Turner recently passed the Virginia Bar Exam, marking a first for the firm. Casey will be sworn in to the Virginia Bar Association on June 3rd, and will begin taking Virginia workers’ compensation cases thereafter. Casey currently practices workers’ comp law in North Carolina. Casey notes that her father, John, […]