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Category: Workers’ Compensation

If your employer is trying to bring you back to work

May 25, 2013
Oxner
If you haven’t reached maximum medical improvement your employer can force you to do ANYTHING and cut off your weekly checks. A few years ago Chip Permar handled a case where the employer called an injured person back to work and had him sitting in an unheated, unlit trailer on a construction site doing absolutely […]
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Two Big Changes in Workers’ Compensation

November 26, 2011
Oxner
Big Change Number One. Currently if you are injured and you cannot return to suitable employment, you are entitled to draw workers’ compensation benefits for life. For nearly twenty years Todd Oxner has been telling people if they live to 102 and die in a bar room brawl they’ll get paid until they’re 102. No […]
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Doctors For Sale! Return to Work Notes For Sale! Case-destroying Opinions For Sale!

July 25, 2013
Oxner
In a dramatic move to increase the stranglehold that workers’ compensation insurance companies and employers have on injured workers, the North Carolina legislature has passed another provision which will have immediate effect on all workers compensation claims. Whether your claim is accepted or denied your employer and their insurance company can force you to see […]
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Retaliatory Employment Discrimination Act

August 6, 2013
Oxner
The Retaliatory Employment Discrimination Act ( or REDA, as it is more commonly referred to) was designed to protect employees who are terminated, demoted, or have other adverse action against them, because they exercised their rights under Workers’ Compensation or other specific circumstances. Every termination claim is not a REDA claim – North Carolina is […]
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The Death of Doctor-Patient Confidentiality

September 25, 2013
Oxner
As far back as we can remember patients have had the comfort of knowing that what they said to their doctors was going to be kept confidential. Sure, there were medical releases, and occasions when medical records were produced. And in workers’ compensation cases the insurance companies could send rehabilitation nurses (most of whom are […]
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